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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Balmoral Railway Station

Balmoral railway station is located in the townland of Ballygammon in south Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The station opened on 1 November 1858. The platform was extended by 45 metres in 1870 and the station has been unstaffed since October 1966.

It is located near the King's Hall, an exhibition and concert venue and home of the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society.

Station house

There is a station house, which was built in the style of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland, it is now in private ownership and has been extended by the owner.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service westbound to Lisburn, Portadown or Newry, and eastbound via Adelaide, to Belfast Lanyon Place and Bangor. Extra trains run at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly operation in the evenings.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

Preceding station   Northern Ireland Railways   Following station
Adelaide   Northern Ireland Railways
Belfast-Newry
  Finaghy
  Historical railways  
Great Victoria Street
Line open, station closed
  Ulster Railway
Belfast-Portadown
  Dunmurry
Line and station open