The station was opened by the Ballycastle Railway on 1 February 1882.

Under the terms of the Transport Act 1947 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the Northern Counties Committee parent company, was nationalised by the British Government on 1 January 1948.

The Northern Counties Committee (and the Ballycastle Railway) was thus briefly owned by the British Transport Commission.

This was only a temporary measure and in 1949 the NCC was transferred to the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) – owned by the Government of Northern Ireland.

This article on a railway station in Northern Ireland is a stub.