Bangor Bus and Rail Centre

The station was opened by the Belfast and County Down Railway on 1 May 1865 and closed to goods traffic on 24 April 1950.

Daylight saving time was introduced by the Summer Time Act 1916 and implemented on 1 October 1916 as GMT plus one hour and Dublin Mean Time plus one hour. However, Dublin Mean Time (used by the railways) had a disparity of twenty-five minutes with Greenwich Mean Time, which meant that the Bangor Railway Station Clock was to be put back only thirty-five minutes instead of one hour. An additional complication was that the clocks in Belfast and Bangor were twenty-three minutes and thirty-nine seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time (not twenty-five minutes as in Dublin), so the final adjustment was thirty-six minutes and twenty-one seconds. The change to the time displayed on the Bangor Station Clock was not welcomed by commuters.^[6]

The station buildings were originally erected in 1864–1865 to designs by the architect Charles Lanyon.^[7] Following World War 2, however, refurbishments made by the Ulster Transport Authority to this Italianate structure damaged the original Lanyon-designed building, stripping it of much of its original brickwork. The company then rebuilt the building, before it was reconstructed again to a new design in 2000.

In the year 2001, then-mayor of Bangor Alan Chambers sealed a time capsule under the foyer of the station which is to be opened in 2101.^[8]

Mondays to Saturdays, there is generally a half-hourly service towards Belfast Grand Central, with additional services operating during weekday peak periods. Services are less frequent during the late evening.^[9]

Some weekday peak services operate on a limited-stop basis. Certain services call at Bangor West before running non-stop to Holywood, while other peak services omit a number of intermediate stations before reaching Lanyon Place.^[9]

On Sundays, there is generally an hourly service towards Belfast, calling at all stations to Belfast Grand Central.^[9]

The railway station is staffed and has three platforms. Access between the station concourse and the platforms is through ticket barriers.^[10]