Sydenham railway station (Northern Ireland)

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Sydenham
Sydenham railway station in 2007
General information
Location	Belfast Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°36′33″N5°52′38″W / 54.6093°N 5.8773°W / 54.6093; -5.8773
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Line(s)	Bangor
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1851	Opened
2008	Refurbished
Passengers
2022/23	222,023 [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 Sydenham Location within Northern Ireland Show map of Northern Ireland Sydenham Location on the Island of Ireland Show map of island of Ireland

Sydenham railway station is located in the townland of Ballymisert in east Belfast, and is within walking distance of Belfast City Airport and Victoria Park. ^[3] The station is unstaffed, and was opened on 1 November 1851.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly westbound service towards Belfast Grand Central in one direction, and a half-hourly eastbound service towards Holywood and Bangor in the other, with extra services at peak times.

In the evenings, the service reduces to hourly operation. Some peak-time express trains will pass through this station without stopping.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction. ^[4]

Preceding station		NI Railways		Following station
Titanic Quarter		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor		Holywood
	Historical railways
Victoria Park Line open, station closed		Belfast and County Down Railway Belfast-Bangor		Holywood Line and station open
	Proposed
Titanic Quarter		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor		Tillysburn

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. "_Bangor Line **From Sun 13 October NIRailways / Bangor Line". translink.co.uk. 13 October 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.

External links

• Media related to Sydenham railway station (Belfast) at Wikimedia Commons