Newry railway station

Newry railway station
Newry
Iúr Cinn Trá
Newry Railway Station.jpg
Platform sign at Newry railway station
Location
Place Newry
Local authority Newry and Mourne
Coordinates 54°11′19″N 6°21′45″W / 54.1885°N 6.3625°W / 54.1885; -6.3625Coordinates: 54°11′19″N 6°21′45″W / 54.1885°N 6.3625°W / 54.1885; -6.3625
Operations
Platforms in use 2
History
1855 Station opened
1942 Closed as Bessbrook
1984 Re-opened as Newry
2009 New station opened
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Newry railway station (Irish: Stáisiún Iúr Cinn Trá)[1] serves Newry in Northern Ireland. The station is in the northwest of the town (in County Armagh) on the Cross Border line next to the 18-arch, 126 ft (38 m) high Craigmore Viaduct.

The station originally opened in 1855 as Newry Main Line,[2] renamed Bessbrook & Newry Main Line in 1866, renamed again as Bessbrook in 1880 before closing in 1942. It was re-opened in 1984 as an NIR Intercity station, with basic facilities such as a temporary booking office. These facilities remained in place for over 20 years from the station's opening by which time their condition was declining. In order to improve facilities for passengers a modern new station building was constructed and opened on September 7th 2009

Enterprise train arrives at Newry

Service

The station is a calling point on the Enterprise express service, which operates between Belfast Central and Dublin Connolly. These trains call at Newry for both destinations at two-hour intervals throughout the day. The station experiences favourable passenger numbers from this service. There are also four trains to and from Bangor, operated by Northern Ireland Railways.

On Sundays there are five Enterprise trains in each direction.

Train frequencies from Newry are likely to improve if plans to introduce an hourly service on the Enterprise become a reality. At this time such plans are merely speculative and it is unclear if such a service would serve Newry every hour, or if they would operate non-stop between Dublin and Belfast.

Preceding station NI Railways Northern Ireland Railways Following station
Portadown   Enterprise
Belfast-Dublin
  Dundalk Clarke
Poyntzpass   Northern Ireland Railways
Newry-Bangor
Mondays-Saturdays only
  Terminus

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