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
Location
Place	Belfast
Local authority	Belfast City
Operations
Platforms in use	2
History
1976	Opened
2008	Refurbished
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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, Great Victoria Street, and Central.

The station opened on 4 November 1976 and is very close to City Hospital Station

Work to improve access for disabled passengers is nearing completion through the provision of lifts to the platforms. This upgrade is part of a £17 million investment package which also includes better lighting, signage and seating. It is expected to be complete by late Spring 2008

Passengers can alight here for the Ulster Museum.

Service

On Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service towards Belfast Central and Bangor, or Great Victoria Street and Portadown on Bangor/Portadown Line services, with extra trains at peak times.

There is also a half-hourly Larne Line service to Great Victoria Street in one direction, or Whitehead and Larne Harbour in the other, with extra services to Carrickfergus at peak times.

Londonderry Line services call hourly at Botanic, operating to Great Victoria Street in one direction, and Londonderry Waterside or Coleraine in the other.

On Sundays, the Bangor, Portadown and Larne Line services all reduce to hourly operation. Derry Line services reduce to two-hourly operation.

The timetable allows 3 minutes for the trains to travel between Belfast Central and Botanic.

At one point, the cross border Enterprise service to Dublin Connolly served Botanic.

MPD unit at Botanic station in 1976

Preceding station	Northern Ireland Railways			Following station
City Hospital		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Londonderry		Belfast Central
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Larne
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Newry
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor

Botanic Gardens

• List of parks and gardens in Belfast