It is the terminus of the railway's North Line and serves Inch Abbey, a ruined monastery and local tourist attraction of Downpatrick notable for its use as a filming location in the HBO show Game of Thrones.

When the station is open passengers purchase tickets and wait for their train in a parked-up railway carriage.

[3] The line passed approximately 600 metres from Inch Abbey, a Cistercian monastery built in 1100 by John de Courcy, but it was never served directly by a railway halt - the BCDR advertised it instead as a tourism destination reachable from Downpatrick station itself.

[4] The restored line follows the original BCDR route out of Downpatrick until shortly after it crosses the River Quoile, where it makes a sharp turn to the north-east to terminate closer to the Abbey itself.

[5] In 2021 the line to Inch Abbey was used for the filming of Derry Girls Season 3 Episode 3, Strangers on a Train.