Botanic railway station

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
General information
Location	Belfast Northern Ireland
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
NI Railways Translink NI railway stations
Location Botanic Location within Northern Ireland

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, Lanyon Place, and the under-construction Grand Central.

The station opened on 26 April 1976 and is very close to City Hospital Station

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 Lisburn and Portadown on Bangor/Portadown Line services, with extra trains at peak times.

During the construction of Grand Central, Botanic is only served by specific peak-time through trains from Whitehead or Larne Harbour on the Larne Line. At all other times, a half-hourly shuttle service operates from here to either City Hospital or Lanyon Place. This is technically classified as a Larne Line service in timetables.

Derry~Londonderry Line services call hourly at Botanic, operating to City Hospital in one direction, and Derry~Londonderry in the other.

On Sundays, the Bangor, Portadown and Larne Line services all reduce to hourly operation. Derry Line services alternate their terminus each other between Derry~Londonderry and Portrush, giving a two-hourly service to stations beyond Coleraine.

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.

80 Class DEMU at Botanic station in 1976

Botanic Gardens

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

• List of parks and gardens in Belfast

External links

• Media related to Botanic railway station at Wikimedia Commons