 The goods station remained until 1959 and the station passing loop was lifted in 1952.A bad derailment took place in 1922 close to Palnure and following an assessment of the state of the permanent way the Ministry of Transport placed the whole of the main line was put under a 45 mph restriction until over a two-year period it was relaid and reballasted and relaid.Following the Beeching cuts closure of the Paddy Line in 1960s the station building was named Station House after its conversion into a private residence.