Lisburn railway station
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Lisburn Station entrance on 7 July, 2007 | |||||||
| General information | |||||||
| Location | Lisburn Northern Ireland | ||||||
| Coordinates | 54°30′51″N 6°02′45″W / 54.514054°N 6.045811°W | ||||||
| Owned by | NI Railways | ||||||
| Operated by | NI Railways | ||||||
| Line(s) | Dublin Portadown/Newry | ||||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||
| Train operators | NI Railways, Iarnród Éireann | ||||||
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| Bus stands | 1 | ||||||
| Bus operators | Ulsterbus | ||||||
| Construction | |||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||
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| Station code | LBURN | ||||||
| Fare zone | iLink Zone 2 | ||||||
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| 1839 | Opened | ||||||
| Passengers | |||||||
| 2015/16 | 1,255,207 [1] | ||||||
| 2016/17 | 1,322,012 [1] | ||||||
| 2017/18 | 1,347,006 [1] | ||||||
| 2018/19 | 1,422,732[2] | ||||||
| 2019/20 | 1,320,623 [3] | ||||||
| 2020/21 | 275,536 [4] | ||||||
| 2021/22 | 738,788 [5] | ||||||
| 2022/23 | 1.069 million[6] | ||||||
| 2023/24 | 1.307 million [7] | ||||||
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Lisburn railway station serves the city of Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
History
The station was opened on 12 August 1839 by the Ulster Railway. The station buildings were rebuilt in 1878 to designed by William Henry Mills, for the then newly formed Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRI).
On Wednesday 20 December 1978, there was a fatal collision between two trains. The fire brigade attended and cut out the person killed from the wreckage. Several other people were treated for minor injuries and shock.[8]
Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive
The Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive holds a black and white film clip. It was made in 1897 and was filmed from a moving train going through Lisburn Railway Station from Belfast to Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Dublin. The station's name can be seen and in addition, the view includes the platform, train carriages, station buildings and large houses along the length of North Circular Road, Lisburn. [9]
Current building
It has been renovated, with a new waiting area on platform 1, new toilets and vending machines. In addition, on platforms 2 and 3, a coffee shop operates on weekday mornings, to accommodate commuters travelling towards Belfast Grand Central. To make the station more accessible, lifts have been installed on each platform.
Station House
There is a station house built in Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNR) style. It is now in private ownership.
Services
Train Services
Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service towards Portadown or Newry in one direction, and to Grand Central in the other. Extra services run at peak times, some as expresses to Grand Central, and the service reduces to hourly operation in the evenings.
On Sundays, there is an hourly NIR service in each direction.
Two Enterprise services call at the station on Sundays only - the 0818 to Dublin Connolly, and the 2256 to Grand Central.
Bus Services
Buses depart from the road outside the station entrance. This stop is served by Ulsterbus, which provides routes to locations such as Belfast, Lisburn City Centre, and Derriaghy.
Former services
Until 2003, Lisburn was also a stop on the Belfast-Derry railway line. However, in 2001, the Bleach Green route (via Mossley and Templepatrick) was re-opened, after being closed in 1978. This provided a faster route for Derry~Londonderry Line trains than the Lisburn-Antrim line. A skeleton service was operated on this line until 2003 when passenger services were withdrawn. The other reason the line was cut was because of the congestion on the route, which caused considerable problems with the Enterprise Service for over 20 years. The line itself is still maintained for rolling stock transfers and emergency diversions.
Passengers now wishing to travel to destinations on the Derry~Londonderry Line can no longer travel directly from Lisburn station and must travel to Grand Central to change trains.
Former lines
The Ulster Railway brought trains from Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station to Portadown and Armagh railway station in Armagh. Later the Great Northern Railway of Ireland had a much more extensive system with trains to Omagh, Enniskillen, Bundoran, Strabane and Derry being linked, which in the 1950s and 1960s was closed west of Portadown.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "NIR Footfall 1518.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 20 December 2018. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "NIR Footfall 1819.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 15 January 2020. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "NIR Footfall 1920.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 11 August 2020. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2021.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 25 February 2021. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2122.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 26 April 2022. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "NIR Footfall 22-23". Whatdotheyknow. 17 April 2023. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ "FOI Footfall 2023 2024 figures PDF.pdf". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 7 May 2024. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Out of the Fire: A History of the Fire Brigade in Lisburn. William Broadhurst and Henry Welsh. Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2004
- ^ Alexandre Promio (photography) (1897). Lumiere Freres: Belfast - Kingstown train. Lisburn. Association Frères Lumière. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021 – via Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive.