Larne Harbour railway station, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, serves the ferry port for ferries to Cairnryan. There are also occasional sailings to Douglas, Isle of Man for the Isle of Man TT. Sailings to Cairnryan are operated by conventional ships; there are several crossings a day throughout the year.
The station is adjacent to the passenger terminus for P&O Ferries, conveniently for foot passengers. (This situation is not the case at the Scottish ferry terminal of Cairnryan, where the nearest railway station, , is five miles (8 km) away.) Early history The station was opened on 1 October 1862. It was improved in 1890 by Berkeley Deane Wise to a budget of £3,000 (), with a double faced platform, one side serving the broad gauge line from Belfast and the other the narrow gauge from Ballymena, and a clock with two minute hands showing both English and Irish time, which was 25 minutes later.Currie, JRL, The Northern Counties Railway, Vol 1, David & Charles, 1973.
Service This station is the final outbound terminus for services on the Larne Line.
On Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service to Belfast Grand Central with extra services at peak times. Some of those peak services start and terminate at the nearby station instead. On weekdays the first train leaves here at 6:05 am and the last train arrives at 12:20 am.
On Sundays the service to Belfast Grand Central reduces to operating every two hours.
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