University railway station (Northern Ireland)
University  | |||||||
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.jpg) NIR Class 80 train at University station in 1979 | |||||||
| General information | |||||||
| Location | Coleraine County Londonderry Northern Ireland | ||||||
| Coordinates | 55°09′02″N 6°40′06″W / 55.15056°N 6.66833°W | ||||||
| Owned by | NI Railways | ||||||
| Operated by | NI Railways | ||||||
| Line(s) | Portrush | ||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||
| Construction | |||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||
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| 1968 | Station opened | ||||||
| Passengers | |||||||
| 2022/23 | 108,396 [1] | ||||||
| 2023/24 |  121,621 [2] | ||||||
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University is a halt serving the University of Ulster at Coleraine in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Ballysally in the north of Coleraine.
It is a single line halt on the Coleraine-Portrush railway line with a single platform and shelter and is unstaffed.
The halt is often extremely busy, given its proximity to the university. Portrush has a large number of students living in it and many of them use the train as transport. It is also used by many passengers to connect to the mainline station at Coleraine for onward journeys to Derry and Belfast.[citation needed]
It was opened on 12 June 1968.[3][4]
Service
[edit]Monday to Friday, first two trains from Portrush are through trains to Belfast Grand Central then the rest of the day an hourly service operates to Coleraine and Portrush.
On Saturdays, the first train from Portrush is a through train to Belfast Grand Central, then the rest of the day an hourly service operates to Coleraine and Portrush.
On Sunday, there is an hourly service to Portrush and Coleraine, with the service extending to Belfast Grand Central every two hours.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "FOI1317 NIR Footfall 2223.xlsx". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ "FOI Footfall 2023 2024 figures PDF.pdf". www.whatdotheyknow.com. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "University station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 30 August 2007.
- ^ Rowledge, J. W. P. (1995). A regional history of railways, vol. 16 – Ireland. Penryn: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-906899-63-X.
- ^ "Derry~Londonderry Line NIRailways / Derry~Londonderry Line". translink.co.uk. 13 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
Railway stations served by NI Railways | |
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| Bangor Line | |
| Derry~Londonderry Line | |
| Larne Line | |
| Newry/Portadown Line | |
| Portrush Line | |
| Dublin Line1 | |
1 Cross-border services jointly operated with Iarnród Éireann under the Enterprise brand Rail transport in Ireland | |
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