Helen's Bay railway station

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Helen's Bay
Helen's Bay station in 2005
General information
Location	Helen's Bay Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°39′59″N5°44′27″W / 54.66639°N 5.74083°W / 54.66639; -5.74083
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Line(s)	Bangor
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1865	Opened
1950	Goods traffic ceased
2008	Refurbished
Passengers
2022/23	135,371 [1]
Route map (Click to expand) Show NI Railways Network map Legend Year closed Great Victoria Street 2024 Belfast Grand Central Belfast-Dublin line to Portadown, Newry, Dublin Connolly City Hospital Windsor 1885 Botanic Ormeau 1885 Lanyon Place Queen's Bridge 1885 Lagan Railway Bridge over River Lagan Belfast-Larne railway line & Belfast-Derry railway line Titanic Quarter (Bridge End) Queen's Quay 1976 Belfast and County Down main line to Comber, Downpatrick, Newcastle 1950 Ballymacarrett 1976 Victoria Park 1981 Sydenham Tillysburn 1945 Kinnegar 1957 Holywood Marino Cultra Craigavad 1957 Seahill Helen's Bay Crawfordsburn 1997 Carnalea Bangor West Bangor This diagram: view talk edit Show Bangor line route diagram
Location Helen's Bay Location within Northern Ireland Show map of Northern Ireland Helen's Bay Location on the Island of Ireland Show map of island of Ireland

Helen's Bay railway station serves Helen's Bay as well as the nearby village of Crawfordsburn in the townland of Ballygrot, County Down, Northern Ireland. ^[3]

History

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

On the 22nd of July, 1922, two brothers, who were well known in Helen's Bay were killed at the station whilst waiting on a train to Belfast. Their bodies were placed in the old station house. ^[4] Another person was killed at the station in 2004. ^[5]

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly westbound service to Titanic Quarter, Belfast Grand Central in one direction, and a half-hourly eastbound service to Bangor West and Bangor in the other. Extra services operate at peak times, and the service is reduced to hourly operation in the evenings. Certain peak-time express trains will pass through Helen's Bay station without stopping.

On Sundays, there is an hourly service in each direction.

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

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. Discoverer Map Series Belfast (D ed.), Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 2005, ISBN   978-1-905306-02-2
4. "THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Brothers killed in tragic railway accident at Helen's Bay". 22 July 2021.
5. "Teen killed by train had taken drink and drugs". Belfasttelegraph.co.uk. 21 April 2005.

Bibliography

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