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Bangor West
Bangor West station in 2012
General information
Location	Crawfordsburn Road, Bangor County Down Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Coordinates	54°39′34″N 5°41′34″W / 54.6595°N 5.6929°W / 54.6595; -5.6929
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Line(s)	Bangor
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Opened	1 June 1928
Original company	Belfast and County Down Railway
Key dates
1928	Opened
2008	Refurbished
Passengers
2022/23	198,490
2023/24	263,853
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Bangor West railway station is located in the townland of Ballyvarnet in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.

History

It was opened on 1 June 1928 by the Belfast and County Down Railway to serve the rapidly expanding suburbs of Bangor. It was initially provided with a wooden structure on the up side to function as waiting room and ticket office.

It was replaced with a simple, more robust concrete structure in 1978. It remains one of the few intermediate suburban stations in Northern Ireland to retain a ticket office. This is owed to the station's high popularity and usage, being served by the Bangor express train, one of the few stations in North Down to be served.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Belfast Grand Central in the westbound direction, and to Bangor in the other eastbound direction. Extra services operate at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly in the evenings.

Certain peak-time express trains operate non-stop from here to Holywood and Belfast Grand Central.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways		Following station
Carnalea		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor Line		Bangor

References

1. "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2223.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
2. "FOI Footfall 2023 2024 figures PDF.pdf". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
3. "Bangor West" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 8 May 2008.

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