Moira railway station

Moira railway station
Moira
Moira Tràin Station[1] (Ulster-Scots)
Moira railway station in 2007.jpg
Location
Place Moira, County Down.
(Station in County Antrim)
Local authority Lisburn
Coordinates 54°29′31″N 6°12′54″W / 54.492°N 6.215°W / 54.492; -6.215Coordinates: 54°29′31″N 6°12′54″W / 54.492°N 6.215°W / 54.492; -6.215
Operations
Platforms in use 2
History
Opened 1841 (1841)
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Moira railway station serves Moira in County Down, Northern Ireland. Despite the station serving the County Down town, the station itself is located in County Antrim, the neighbouring Lagan Canal being the boundary. Moira station is the oldest building on the NIR network today having been opened on 18 November 1841.[2]. The old, now redundant, signal box stands over the station on the Southbound side.

Situated near the M1 motorway, the station is popular amongst commuters from the surrounding area.

Station Buildings

There is a station building and signal cabin on the 'down' platform. Off site, away from the platforms, there is a station master's house. During the construction of the station and the railway thousands of skeletons were unearthed, leading to a greater understanding of the Battle of Moira, the largest battle in the history of Ireland, which had occurred in 637 and the previous details of which were much less well known.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Portadown or Newry in one direction and to Bangor or Belfast in the other, with extra services at peak times and the service is hourly in the evenings operated by Northern Ireland Railways.

Moira station in the winter.


On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

References

Preceding station NI Railways Northern Ireland Railways Following station
Lisburn   Northern Ireland Railways
Newry-Bangor
  Lurgan



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