Marino railway station

This article is about the station in Northern Ireland. For the metro station in Moscow, see Maryino (Moscow Metro). For the railway station in Adelaide, see Marino railway station, Adelaide.

Marino
File:Marino railway station in 2006.jpg Marino railway station in 2006
Location	Holywood Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Coordinates
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1 December 1870	Opened
11 November 1957	Closed
4 January 1960	Reopened
2008	Refurbished
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Marino railway station is a railway station in the townland of Ballycultra in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Service

From Mondays to Saturdays there is a half hourly service to Belfast Central, Portadown or Newry in one direction, and to Bangor in the other. More frequent trains run at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly in the evenings. Some peak-hour trains pass through Marino without stopping.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

Preceding station	Northern Ireland Railways			Following station
Holywood		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Bangor		Cultra

History

File:Marino railway station in 1983.jpg

A NIR 101 Class diesel locomotive hauls a passenger train into Marino station in 1983

The Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway opened Marino station on 1 December 1870 on land once inhabited by Benedictine monks.

Due to low passenger numbers, the Ulster Transport Authority closed the station on 11 November 1957. However, under public pressure the UTA reopened it on 4 January 1960.

Translink had the station refurbished in 2008.