Knockmore railway station

Knockmore
Class 3000 train passing the remains of Knockmore station in 2010
Location
Place	Lisburn
Area	County Antrim
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway of Ireland
Post-grouping	Northern Ireland Railways
Platforms	2 (One on Belfast-Newry down line, one on Lisburn-Antrim bi-directional single line.)
History
1841	Lisburn - Lurgan line opened
1863	Banbridge branch opened
1871	Antrim branch opened
1932	First station opened
1933	First station closed
1956	Banbridge branch closed
1974	Station reopened on new site
2005	Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Knockmore railway station (Irish: Cnoc Mór) was a station on the Belfast–Newry railway line. The station served the suburb of Knockmore in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) opened Knockmore station as a halt in 1932.Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) closed the station on 25 March 2005.

Knockmore station had two platforms. One platform was served by "down" trains only on the service from Belfast Central via Lisburn to Portadown, while the other platform was served by trains in both directions on the Belfast – Lisburn – Antrim – Derry service. "Up" trains travelling from Portadown to Belfast could not serve Knockmore as it was the middle line with no platform.

The station is near Knockmore Junction, which came into service in 1863 for the Banbridge, Lisburn and Belfast Junction Railway (BLB) to connect with the Ulster Railway. The junction gained another branch in 1871 when the Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway (D&A, now the Lisburn–Antrim railway line) was opened. The Ulster Railway, BLB and D&A all became part of the GNR by the end of the 1870s. A halt was finally provided at Knockmore Junction in 1932, but it did not last long and was closed a year later. The GNR was nationalised in 1953 as the GNR Board, which closed Banbridge branch on 29 April 1956.