Editing Portstewart (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Cromore station near Portstewart - geograph.org.uk - 219758.jpg|thumb|right|Cromore station near Portstewart.]]
Portstewart is near the [[Coleraine–Portrush line|Portrush branch line]] from {{rws|Coleraine}} to {{rws|Portrush}}, opened by the [[Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway]] in 1856,<ref>{{cite web|title=Cromore station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | accessdate=2012-05-06}}</ref> which was later absorbed into the [[Northern Counties Committee|Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (later Northern Counties Committee)]] in 1861.<ref>{{cite book| title=The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland| first=William Alan| last=McCutcheon| publisher=Northern Ireland Dept. of the Environment; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press| year=1984}}</ref> There was an intermediate station called ''[[Cromore railway station|Portstewart]]'' although it was about a mile from the town. The town was connected to the station by the [[Portstewart Tramway]] from 1882 to 1926. After closure of the tramway, the station saw few passengers eventually closing in 1963. It re-opened as ''Cromore'' in 1969 when the branch was upgraded but closed again in 1988. The station building has been sold and is now a private house.

Today there is no longer a station in Portstewart, but the nearest ones are Coleraine, {{rws|University|Northern Ireland}}, {{rws|Dhu Varren}} and Portrush with [[Northern Ireland Railways]] providing connections west to [[Castlerock]] and [[Derry ~ Londonderry railway station|Derry~Londonderry railway station]] and east to [[Lanyon Place railway station|Belfast Lanyon Place railway station]] and [[Belfast Grand Central station]]. [[Ulsterbus]] provide connections to the trains at Coleraine railway station.