The station was opened by the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway on 4 December 1855 to designs by the architect Charles Lanyon.

A similar range of buildings was provided on the east side of the tracks in the 1880s.

The shared train and bus station building has a distinctive rotunda with a high arched entrance, by GM Design Associates.

On weekdays, there is an hourly service operating to Belfast Grand Central, with extra services at peak times, and some late night and early morning trains terminating here.

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