Bangor railway station (Northern Ireland)

Bangor
Bangor
	Bangor Combined Railway and bus station was formally opened in 2001.
General information
Location	Bangor; Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°39′31″N 5°40′21″W / 54.6585°N 5.6725°W
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Platforms	3
Tracks	3 (At Platforms) ; 4 (In Total)
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1865	Original station opened
2001	Current station opened
Passengers
2022/23	1.301 million
	NI Railways; Translink; NI railway stations;

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

The station in its current form was built in the year 2000 to celebrate the new millennium

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.

Daylight saving time was introduced by the Summer Time Act 1916 and implemented on 1 October 1916 as GMT plus one hour and Dublin Mean Time plus one hour. However, Dublin Mean Time (used 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.

In the year 2000, then-mayor of Bangor Alan Chambers^[3] sealed a time capsule near the entrance of the station which is to be opened in 2100.

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 reduce 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.

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways		Following station
Bangor West		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor Line		Terminus

References

^ "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2223.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
^ Elder, Ellen Hanna. "An Idea Whose Time Had Come." Your Place & Mine. BBC Northern Ireland. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
^ https://www.uup.org/alan_chambers

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[FOI_figures-1] "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2223.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2024.

[2] Elder, Ellen Hanna. "An Idea Whose Time Had Come." Your Place & Mine. BBC Northern Ireland. Retrieved 13 December 2020.

[3] ttps://www.uup.org/alan_chambers

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