Passengers to or from Ballina and Foxford must travel to Manulla Junction and change trains.

[1] The station was opened as Westport Town on 28 January 1866 by the Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR).

A branch line to Achill was opened in February 1894 as far as Newport and in May 1895 in its full length, but was already closed on 1 October 1937.

An extension of the line from Dublin to Westport Quay was opened by the MGWR in 1875.

It was dismantled about ten years later, with the Quay station obliterated under a new housing development.