(Belfast and County Down Railway) on its present site at Station Walk on 1 June 1877 with only an up platform, and a brake van as an office.

(Belfast and County Down Railway) built a station house on the upside in 1897, most of which still stands.

The station's low-set signal cabin (disused since the 1930s) and downside shelter have been demolished since the Northern Ireland Railways takeover in 1967.

[2] From Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Belfast Grand Central in one direction, and Bangor in the other.

Certain peak-time express trains will pass through Carnalea station without stopping.