Botanic railway station

Botanic railway station serves the Botanic area in south Belfast, Northern Ireland and students for Queen's University Belfast; it is also near Shaftesbury Square which is along Botanic Avenue. It is named after the nearby Belfast Botanic Gardens. It is one of the four stations located in the city centre, the others being City Hospital, Great Victoria Street, and Lanyon Place.

This article is about the railway station in Northern Ireland. For the station in The Bronx, see Botanical Garden (Metro-North station). For the subway station in Brooklyn, see Botanic Garden (BMT Franklin Avenue Line). For the former station in Scotland, see Botanic Gardens railway station.

Botanic
Location	Belfast Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Coordinates	54.5884°N 5.9328°W / 54.5884; -5.9328
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1976	Opened
2008	Refurbished
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The station opened on 4 November 1976 and is very close to City Hospital Station [1]

Passengers can alight here for the Ulster Museum, which is situated on the edge of Botanic Gardens.

Exterior of the station

Service

On Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service towards Lanyon Place and Bangor, or Great Victoria Street and Portadown on Bangor/Portadown Line services, with extra trains at peak times.

There is also a half-hourly Larne Line service to Great Victoria Street in one direction, or Whitehead and Larne Harbour in the other, with extra services to Carrickfergus at peak times.

Londonderry Line services call hourly at Botanic, operating to Great Victoria Street in one direction, and Londonderry Waterside or Coleraine in the other.

On Sundays, the Bangor, Portadown and Larne Line services all reduce to hourly operation. Derry Line services reduce to two-hourly operation.

The timetable allows 3 minutes for the trains to travel between Lanyon Place and Botanic.

At one point, the cross border Enterprise service to Dublin Connolly served Botanic, but no longer stops at the station.

MPD unit at Botanic station in 1976

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways		Following station
City Hospital		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Londonderry		Lanyon Place
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Larne
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Newry
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor

Botanic Gardens

The Botanic Gardens are a short walk away from the station.

• List of parks and gardens in Belfast

References

1. "Botanic Station01". IRRS. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 8 May 2008.

External links

• Media related to Botanic railway station at Wikimedia Commons