Portadown railway station

The original Portadown station was sited half a mile east of the present station and opened on 12 September 1842, replacing a temporary station at Seagoe that had opened the preceding year. The Portadown station was moved to the present location in 1848 then reverted to its original site between 1863 and 1970. Goods traffic ceased on 4 January 1965.

The present station opened in 1970, replacing a large and largely redundant station. At the time (1970) the station was called Portadown - Craigavon West, a title that was quietly dropped after the "new city" Craigavon failed to materialise. The layout of the 1970 station was modified in 1997 to allow bi-directional working on all three platforms. The lines to Cavan via Armagh (closed 1957), and Derry via Dungannon and Omagh (closed 1965) diverged immediately west of the present station.^[15]

In 2012, work began on a major refurbishment of the station. A new, modern building was constructed and a footbridge replaced the subway. The refurbishment was completed in 2013.^[16]

The station has three platforms, which are all fully accessible via lifts, and a footbridge connects platform 1 with platforms 2 and 3. The modern station building features ticket machines as well as a ticket office, departure boards, a shop and plenty of seating both in the station's main concourse and on the platforms. There are automatic ticket barriers at the entrance to the platforms from the station concourse. Platform 1 is used mostly for Southbound Enterprise services and terminating Translink N.I. Railways services from Belfast, platform 2 is used mostly for northbound Enterprise services and platform 3 is used for terminating Translink N.I. Railways services from Newry or Belfast, and sometimes empty trains are stored at platform 3 as well. There are two sidings South of platform 1 sometimes used for storing track machinery e.g. tampers.

This is the terminus for most services on the Belfast-Newry railway line. Four services operate beyond here to Newry on weekdays and Saturdays. There is a half-hourly service to Belfast Grand Central in the other direction. On Sundays, this service reduces to hourly toward Belfast Grand Central, with no NIR services to Newry.

An hourly Enterprise service runs to Dublin Connolly or Belfast Grand Central every weekday and Saturday, while a bi-hourly service operates on Sundays.

This line can be popular with rugby fans connecting at Dublin Connolly for the DART to Lansdowne Road. The line is also used by rail passengers changing at Dublin Connolly onto the DART to Dún Laoghaire for example or travelling to Dublin Port for the Irish Ferries or Stena Line to Holyhead, and then by train along the North Wales Coast Line to London Euston and other destinations in England and Wales.

Translink's Ulsterbus and Goldliner services operating from just outside Portadown railway station:^[22]

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  Class 3000 awaiting departure to Bangor 9 May 2012
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  Cross Border Mail Train in Portadown 15 July 1972
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  The Enterprise Train approaching Portadown from Dublin on the 15 April 2014
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  Portadown Platform 1 and Car Park 28 August 2015
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  Entrance to Portadown Station May 2016
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  The Enterprise Train arriving into Portadown (Craigavon West) from Dublin on 10 June 1972
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  NIR extended 4017 on test after receiving 3 additional intermediate carriages.