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

History

The station was opened 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 ...

on 1 May 1865 and closed to goods traffic on 24 April 1950.

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was introduced by the Summer Time Act 1916 and implemented on 1st October 1916 as

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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. The station buildings were erected in 1864–1865 to designs by the architect

Charles Lanyon Sir Charles Lanyon DL, JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English architect of the 19th century. His work is most closely associated with Belfast, Northern Ireland. Biography Lanyon was born in Eastbourne, Sussex (now East Sussex) in ...

, 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.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards , Belfast Great Victoria Street, or . Extra services operate at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly operation in the evenings. Certain peak-time services from this station operate as expresses between and or Belfast Central. On Sundays there is an hourly service to Belfast and onward.

References

Railway stations in County Down Bangor, County Down Railway stations opened in 1865 Railway stations served by NI Railways {{NorthernIreland-railstation-stub