Lisburn railway station

Lisburn railway station serves the city of Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Lisburn
InterCity Rail & Commuter Rail
Lisburn Station entrance on 7 July, 2007
General information
Location	Lisburn Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54.514054°N 6.045811°W / 54.514054; -6.045811
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Line(s)	Dublin Portadown/Newry
Platforms	3
Tracks	4
Train operators	NI Railways, Iarnród Éireann
Bus routes	23a 51a 103 103b 109 109a 325a 325c 325d 325i 325j 325k 523 525 538 551 551a
Bus stands	1
Bus operators	Ulsterbus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Other information
Station code	LBURN[citation needed]
Fare zone	iLink Zone 2
Key dates
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]
NI Railways Translink NI railway stations
Route map (Click to expand) Show NI Railways Network map Legend Year closed Great Victoria Street 2024 Belfast Grand Central Westlink / Central Junction to Lanyon Place Adelaide Depot Adelaide Balmoral Finaghy M1 Dunmurry Derriaghy Lambeg Hilden Lisburn Knockmore 2005 Lisburn-Antrim line 2003 Banbridge, Lisburn & Belfast Jn Rly to Banbridge 1956 Maze 1974 Broomhedge Halt 1973 Damhead 1973 Moira M1 Pritchard's Bridge 1844 Lurgan Goodyear Halt 1983 Seagoe 1842 River Bann Portadown to Dungannon, Omagh and Londonderry 1965 to Armagh, Clones and Cavan 1957 Tanderagee 1965 Banbridge Jn Rly to Banbridge 1955 Scarva Acton Crossing 1954 Poyntzpass Augheranter Crossing 1954 Knockarney Crossing 1965 Newry and Armagh Railway to Armagh 1955 Goraghwood 1965 to Warrenpoint 1965 Mullaghglass 1901 Bessbrook and Newry Tramway Craigmore Viaduct Newry MacNeill's Egyptian Arch Wellington Inn 1852 Adavoyle 1933 Northern Ireland Ireland border Mt. Pleasant 1965 M1 Castletown River Dundalk Clarke Dundalk Junct. station 1894 ← to Clones and Enniskillen│to Greenore → 1957/1952 Dundalk Railway Works 1958 Castlebellingham 1976 to Ardee 1975 Dromin Junction 1975 Dunleer 1984 Newfoundwell Boyne Viaduct Drogheda MacBride Oldcastle branch line (freight only) Bettystown 1847 Laytown Laytown Viaduct Mosney 2000 Gormanston Balbriggan Ardgillan 1867 Skerries Skerries Golf Club Halt 1960 Baldongan 1847 Rush and Lusk Rogerstown Viaduct Donabate Broadmeadow viaduct Malahide Portmarnock Clongriffin Baldoyle 1852 to Howth Howth Junction & Donaghmede Kilbarrack Raheny Harmonstown Killester Clontarf 1956 Clontarf Road Fairview DART depot River Tolka North Wall Yard to Alexandra Road Western Commuter & Sligo Line Docklands The Royal Canal Dublin Connolly Luas Red Line to Tallaght and Saggart Loopline Bridge Trans-Dublin Line & Rosslare Line = Northern Commuter = Newry/Portadown Line This diagram: view talk edit Show Dublin line route diagram Legend Year closed Great Victoria Street 2024 Belfast Grand Central Westlink / Central Junction to Lanyon Place Adelaide Adelaide Depot Balmoral Finaghy Dunmurry Derriaghy Lambeg Hilden Lisburn Knockmore 2005 Lisburn-Antrim railway line to Antrim (disused) Maze 1974 Moira Lurgan River Bann Portadown Tanderagee 1965 Scarva Poyntzpass Goraghwood 1965 Newry Belfast-Dublin railway line to Dublin Connolly = Northern Commuter This diagram: view talk edit Show Portadown/Newry line route diagram
Location Lisburn Location within Northern Ireland Show map of Northern Ireland Lisburn Lisburn (island of Ireland) Show map of island of Ireland

History

The station in 1974

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

Lisburn Station platform sign

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.^{[citation needed]}

Station House

There is a station house built in Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNR) style. It is now in private ownership.

Services

A NIR Class 3000 'C3K' departs Lisburn

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.

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways		Following station
Hilden		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Newry		Moira
Belfast Grand Central		Enterprise Belfast-Dublin (Sundays only)		Lurgan
	Disused railways
Hilden		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Derry via Lisburn-Antrim line		Knockmore
	Historical railways
Dunmurry Line and station open		Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Belfast-Portadown		The Damhead Line open, station closed

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

• Lisburn West railway station