The station was opened by the Ballycastle Railway on 18 October 1880.

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.