Bangor railway station (Northern Ireland)

Bangor railway station is a terminal railway station which serves the town of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland.

Bangor
Bangor combined railway and bus station was formally opened in 2001.
Location	Bangor Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54.6585°N 5.6725°W
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Platforms	2
Tracks	3 (At Platforms) 4 (In Total)
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1865	Original station opened
2001	Current station opened
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History

The station was opened by the Belfast and County Down Railway on 1 May 1865 and closed to goods traffic on 24 April 1950.[1]

Daylight saving time was introduced by the Summer Time Act 1916 and implemented on 1st October 1916 as GMT plus one hour and Dublin Mean Time plus one hour. However, Dublin Mean Time (used for by the railways) had a disparity of twenty-five minutes with Greenwich Mean Time, which meant that the Bangor Railway Station Clock was to be put back only thirty-five minutes instead of one hour. An additional complication was that the clocks in Belfast and Bangor were twenty-three minutes and thirty-nine seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time (not twenty-five minutes as in Dublin), so the final adjustment was thirty-six minutes and twenty-one seconds. The change to the time displayed on the Bangor Station Clock was not welcomed by commuters.[2]

The station buildings were erected in 1864–1865 to designs by the architect Charles Lanyon, however following World War 2, refurbishments made to the building by the Ulster Transport Authority damaged the original Lanyon-designed building, stripping it of much of its original brickwork. The company then rebuilt the building, before it was reconstructed again to a new design in 2000.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Belfast Central, Belfast Great Victoria Street, Portadown or Newry. Extra services operate at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly operation in the evenings. Certain peak-time services from this station operate as expresses between Bangor West and Holywood or Belfast Central.

On Sundays there is an hourly service to Belfast and onward.

References

1. "Bangor station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2007.
2. Elder, Ellen Hanna. "An Idea Whose Time Had Come." Your Place & Mine. BBC Northern Ireland. Retrieved 13 December 2020.