Location type

Station

Name and dates

Portadown [1st] (1842-1848)

Opened on the Ulster Railway.

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Description

This station was a terminus for the line from Belfast. Nothing remains of the terminus. It was located on the east bank of the River Bann and was approached from the north east. It closed with extension of the line to Armagh in 1848, the extension passing to the north of the terminus and a new Portadown [2nd] station (the site of the present Portadown station) opening to the west, on the west bank of the river and closer to the town.

The remains of this first station were demolished when Portadown's station was relocated again, Portadown [3rd], in 1863 to a site adjacent to the original station. (It was to relocate yet again to the 2nd site in 1970 - the present station.)

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