Lurgan railway station

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Lurgan
NI Railways
Lurgan Station.JPG
LocationLurgan
Northern Ireland
Coordinates54°28′01″N 6°20′17″W / 54.467°N 6.338°W / 54.467; -6.338Coordinates: 54°28′01″N 6°20′17″W / ���54.467°N 6.338°W / 54.467; -6.338
Owned byNI Railways
Operated byNI Railways
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Key dates
1841Station opened

Lurgan railway station serves Lurgan in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The station opened on 18 November 1841.[1] In 1972, the original Great Northern Railway station building was destroyed by a paramilitary bomb, and subsequently the current station building was erected.[2]

Service[]

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Portadown or Newry in one direction and to Lisburn, Great Victoria Street, Belfast Central and Bangor in the other. Extra services run at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly operation in the evenings.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction. There is also a Sunday-only Enterprise service with one morning train to Dublin Connolly.

Lurgan Railway Station Front Entrance.jpg
Preceding station   NIR logo.svg Northern Ireland Railways   Following station
Moira   Northern Ireland Railways
Belfast-Newry
  Portadown
Lisburn   Enterprise
Belfast-Dublin
(Sundays only)
 
  Historical railways  
Pritchard's Bridge
Line open, station closed
  Ulster Railway
Belfast-Seagoe
  Seagoe
Line open, station closed
  Ulster Railway
Belfast-Portadown
  Portadown
Line and station open

References[]

  1. ^ "Lurgan station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 28 August 2007.
  2. ^ "Geograph:: Lurgan railway station - 1968 © the Carlisle Kid".

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