Carrickhugh Station, Carrickhugh, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry

A derelict station building and train shed in red brick with yellow brick trims and quoins on the ground floor, situated adjacent to the main Derry to Belfast railway line. Built between 1860 and 1879, possibly designed by architect John Lanyon who was responsible for most stations on the line, the building exhibits details typical of other stations on this route.

The north elevation comprises four bays and two storeys on the main part, with a fifth bay over the ticket office to the west. A three-bay blank wall forms the continuation of the engine shed to the west, with toilets abutting the building to the east. The ground floor features semi-circular arches to the windows with frames now gone. A yellow brick string course marks the first floor level. The first floor windows are rectangular with frames absent, and notably lack yellow bricks around the openings or at the quoins. The red brick of the upper storey is a slightly different shade from the ground floor, suggesting a later construction date. The roof is natural slate with decorated exposed ends of rafters. Two-stage brick chimneys sit on each gable.

The west gable of the train shed is in poor condition with the decorative barge falling apart. A tall slot opening for trains pierces this elevation.

The south elevation contains a single platform-height opening to the train shed, approximately one metre above ground, trimmed in yellow brick with a segmental head. Two projecting corbels positioned 1.5 metres from the base align on either side of this doorway. A gabled return in the centre of the main station house rises two storeys but is lower than the main roof, featuring a decorative barge and a central window with the remains of a Victorian spaced six-pane sash with a wider central pane. A plinth course runs along this elevation at platform level, with yellow brick at the top and whinstone below. A ruined single-storey whinstone projection extends from the end of the return, structured as a lean-to with yellow bricks around openings and quoins. Public entrance to the west of the return is through an arched opening matching the north facade. The east gable is blank except for a decorative barge board.

The interior retains surviving detail untouched compared to other similar buildings on the line.

A stone-edged platform lies beside the line on the northern side of the building.

The station was marked on the 1848 Ordnance Survey Map with a branch line to the south side continuing to Carrickhugh Corn Mill. It formed part of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway, which opened on 29 December 1852, later expanding into the Midland Railway before becoming the Northern Ireland Railways. The 1858 Griffith's Valuation records no railway building in the townland, suggesting the 1848 map showed a proposed rather than completed railway; construction may not have occurred until the 1870s, as at nearby Magilligan. The building is architecturally similar to Magilligan Halt and Bellarena Station, both by Lanyon.

The 1923 survey shows the present station and branch line, with the station marked also as a post office. The fortunes of the station were closely linked to the nearby mill complex, and the building likely continued operating as a post office during the 1950s before the service transferred to Townley's post office. The station was sold to Mrs Steele in 1959 and is presently owned by the owner of the mills and surrounding farm. It is of particular interest as an important part of the industrial complex at Carrickhugh, which exploited its location close to the railway to sustain production while more remote mills declined. The building is of local and industrial archaeological interest as part of a group of similar stations along the line.