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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]
The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway (PD&O) was an Irish gauge (5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)) railway in County Armagh and County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). Early development
This is a route-map template for the Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway, a Northern Ireland railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The town's first railway station opened in 1842. [59] At Portadown railway station the line went in four directions – one went northeast toward Belfast, one northwest toward Dungannon, one southwest to Armagh and one southeast toward Newry and onward to Dublin. Today only the Belfast–Dublin line remains.
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.
The current (Fourth) Portadown station is on the same site as the second one, and was formerly the junction between the mainline and the lines to Armagh and Derry Foyle Road. For a time in the 1970s it was known as Craigavon West. Most non-Enterprise trains, save for couple of peak commuter services, terminate here.
The typical off-peak service on this route is 2tph (trains per hour). The last train of the day arrives in Bangor and Portadown shortly after midnight. Services Belfast to Whitehead are typically every 30 mins daytime and hourly evenings and weekends. Trains extend to Larne typically every hour.
The Ulster Railway opened Armagh station in 1848, linking the city with Belfast. [1] The Ulster Railway was extended from Armagh to Monaghan in 1858 [1] and Clones in 1863. [2] The Newry and Armagh Railway (N&A) opened in 1864, and had its own temporary terminus just outside Armagh until it started using the Ulster Railway station in 1865. [1]