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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Derriaghy Railway Station

Derriaghy railway station is located in the townland of Derriaghy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies between the centres of Belfast and Lisburn.

The station opened on 9 February 1907 and was closed to passengers between 1953 and 1958.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Lisburn, Portadown or Newry in one direction, and to Botanic, Belfast Lanyon Place or Bangor in the other. Extra services operate 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
Dunmurry   Northern Ireland Railways
Belfast–Newry line
  Lambeg
NIR Class 80 train departing Derriaghy in 2004

2024 capacity upgrade

In December 2018, NIR announced that 21 additional carriages would be purchased from CAF to extend 7 units from the Class 4000 fleet to be 6 carriages in length. Both platform 1 and 2 at Derriaghy were too short (only 3 carriage trains could call at the station) and each platform needed to be 150m in length, so the decision was taken to extend the Lisburn-end of platform 1 but rebuild platform 2 across the Queensway road with a ramp to make the station fully accessible.

A planning application was submitted to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council in March 2021, of which approval was given in October 2022. Consequently, construction commenced July 2023. The new platform 2 opened on Monday 25 March 2024, and all works are due to be completed by Spring 2024.

Platform 2 at Derriaghy was replaced by a new structure across the Queensway road.
Platform 2 at Derriaghy was replaced by a new structure across the Queensway road. This photo was taken on Saturday 23 March 2024, and the platform opened on Monday 25 March 2024. Platform 1 at Derriaghy was extended to cater for 6-carriage trains. This photo was taken on Saturday 23rd March 2024.