Botanic railway station


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.
The station opened on 4 November 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.

Service

On Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service towards and Bangor, or and on Bangor/Portadown Line services, with extra trains at peak times.
There is also a half-hourly Larne Line service to in one direction, or and in the other, with extra services to at peak times.
Londonderry Line services call hourly at Botanic, operating to in one direction, and or 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 and Botanic.
At one point, the cross border Enterprise service to Dublin Connolly served Botanic, but no longer stops at the station.

Botanic Gardens

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