Portadown railway station

1879.]]}} 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…

The station has three platforms, which are all fully accessible via lifts, and a footbridge connects platform 1 with platforms 2 and 3. The modern station building features ticket machines as well as a ticket office, departure boards, a shop and plenty of seating both in the station's main concourse and on the platforms. There are automatic ticket barriers at the entrance to the platforms from the station concourse. Platform 1 is used mostly for Southbound Enterprise services and terminating Translink N.I. Railways services from Belfast, platform 2 is used mostly for northbound Enterprise services and platform 3 is used for terminating Translink N.I. Railways services from Newry or Belfast,…