Portadown

Overview and details
Portadown Railway Station serves Portadown in County Armagh, Northern Ireland

The original Portadown station was sited half a mile east of the present station and opened on 12 September 1842, replacing a temporary station at Seagoe that had opened the preceding year. The Portadown station was moved to the present location in 1848 then reverted to its original site between 1863 and 1970. Goods traffic ceased on 4 January 1965. The present station opened in 1970, replacing a large and largely redundant station.

At the time (1970) the station was called Portadown - Craigavon West, a title that was quietly dropped after the "new city" Craigavon failed to materialise. The layout of the 1970 station was modified in 1997 to allow bi-directional working on all three platforms. The lines to Cavan via Armagh (closed 1957), and Derry via Dungannon and Omagh (closed 1965) diverged immediately west of the present station.

In 2012, work began on a major refurbishment of the station. A new, modern building was constructed and a footbridge replaced the subway. The refurbishment was completed in 2013.

The station has three platforms. After the station upgrade being completed in late May 2013 both platforms 1, 2 and 3 have lifts and have disability access. Platform 3 is usually used for storage of a train but one departs from this platform occasionally towards Great Victoria Street.

Trivia

 * Portadown Railway Station has moved multiple times throughout it’s history
 * This is the southernmost terminus of the Bangor Line
 * The station used to have a underground passage but in 2013 this was removed and a footbridge installed
 * One of 3 stations the Enterprise stops at in Northern Ireland
 * In 2014, a proposed plan to reopen the line to Armagh City was released following announcement from Danny Kennedy, the Government Minister for the Department for Regional Development