Bangor West railway station is located in the

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

of Ballyvarnet in Bangor,

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

, Northern Ireland. It was opened on 1 June 1928 by the

Belfast and County Down Railway The Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) was an Irish gauge () railway in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) linking Belfast with County Down. It was built in the 19th century and absorbed into the Ulster Transport Authority in 1948. All but th ...

to serve the rapidly expanding suburbs of Bangor. It was initially provided with a wooden structure on the up side to function as waiting room and ticket office. It was replaced with a simple, more robust concrete structure in 1978. It remains one of the few intermediate suburban stations in Northern Ireland to retain a ticket office. This is owed to the station's high popularity and usage, being served by the Bangor express train, one of the few stations in North Down to be served.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards , Belfast Great Victoria Street, , or in the westbound direction, and to in the other eastbound direction. Extra services operate at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly in the evenings. Certain peak-time express trains operate non-stop from here to and . On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

References

Railway stations in County Down Bangor, County Down Railway stations opened in 1928 Railway stations served by NI Railways {{NorthernIreland-railstation-stub