Moira railway station

This article is about the railway station in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. For the former railway station in Leicestershire, England, see Moira railway station, Leicestershire.

Moira
Moira Tràin Station[1] (Ulster-Scots)
Location
Place	Moira, County Down. (Station in County Antrim)
Local authority	Lisburn
Coordinates	54°29′31″N 6°12′54″W / 54.492°N 6.215°W / 54.492; -6.215Coordinates: 54°29′31″N 6°12′54″W / 54.492°N 6.215°W / 54.492; -6.215
Operations
Platforms in use	2
History
Opened 1841 (1841)
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Moira railway station serves Moira in County Down, Northern Ireland. Despite the station serving the County Down town, the station itself is located in County Antrim, the neighbouring Lagan Canal being the boundary. Moira station is the oldest building on the NIR network today having been opened on 18 November 1841.^[2]. The old, now redundant, signal box stands over the station on the Southbound side.

Situated near the M1 motorway, the station is popular amongst commuters from the surrounding area.

Station Buildings

There is a station building and signal cabin on the 'down' platform. Off site, away from the platforms, there is a station master's house. During the construction of the station and the railway thousands of skeletons were unearthed, leading to a greater understanding of the Battle of Moira, the largest battle in the history of Ireland, which had occurred in 637 and the previous details of which were much less well known.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Portadown or Newry in one direction and to Bangor or Belfast in the other, with extra services at peak times and the service is hourly in the evenings operated by Northern Ireland Railways.

Moira station in the winter.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

References

1. ^ Moira Station (Ulster-Scots translation) DOE.
2. ^ http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/moirastationeng.pdf

Preceding station	Northern Ireland Railways			Following station
Lisburn		Northern Ireland Railways Newry-Bangor		Lurgan