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Portadown Railway Station serves the town of Portadown in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The station is located on the Belfast-Dublin railway line. The original station opened in 1842, and the present station opened in 1970. It is currently NI Railways 6th busiest station with over 1.1 million passengers in the 2023/24 financial year [9]
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The old railway station in Edenderry (c. 1879) A combination of road, canal and rail links, all converging on Portadown railway station , gave it the nickname "Hub of the North" and this created employment through mass industry as well as helping the traditional agronomy of the area.
The Belfast–Newry line (known as the Portadown line by NI Railways) operates from Belfast Grand Central in County Antrim to Newry in County Down, Northern Ireland.The manager for this line is based at Portadown railway station, although the line extends to the border to include the Scarva and Poyntzpass halts and Newry.
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[2] [5] In so doing it completed the railway route between Portadown and Derry that came to be informally known as the "Derry Road". [ 6 ] Besides Dungannon Tunnel, the PD&O's most significant engineering features were an iron lattice viaduct over the River Blackwater and the fact that west of Pomeroy the line reached a summit of 561 feet (171 ...
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway (D&B Jct): Incorporated in 1845, the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway aimed to bridge the gap between the D&D at Drogheda and the Ulster Railway at Portadown. The line opened in stages between 1849 and 1853, with the completion of the Boyne Viaduct in 1855 marking the final connection.
A parkway railway station is a railway station that primarily serves a park and ride interchange rather than a town or city centre. The name parkway originally referred to Bristol Parkway being built next to the M32 motorway, which was built through parkland and thus known as the "Bristol Parkway". [1]