The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway opened the station as Willsborough on 29 November 1852.[1] It was renamed Muff on 1 October 1853, and Eglinton on 1 February 1854.
New station buildings were erected between 1873 and 1875 to designs by the architect John Lanyon.[2]
^"Eglinton station"(PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
^The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. William Alan McCutcheon, Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984