Helen's Bay railway station

Helen's Bay railway station serves Helen's Bay in County Down, Northern Ireland.^[1] It is within the townland of Ballygrot.

The station in the grand Scottish Baronial style, built in 1863, was the creation of Lord Dufferin, through whose land the line was laid. His family had their own private entrance and waiting room. The architect was Benjamin Ferrey.

The station opened on 1 May 1865 and was closed for goods traffic on 24 April 1950.

The next station on the line towards Bangor used to be Crawfordsburn but this was closed in 1997.

Service

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

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

References

• William Alan McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland, (Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland 1980)

1. ^ Discoverer Map Series Belfast (D ed.), Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 2005, ISBN 978-1905306022