Lisburn Train Station

Small station with very little seating. Close to the town centre. Few vending machines available so make sure you have change if you’re waiting for a while!

I’ve been a regular visitor to this train station over the last year as I did an evening class in the college in Lisburn. The train station is in a great location being just a short walk from the town centre with shops, cafes, banks etc and also the shopping mall. It is also close to the college and Castle Gardens too.
The station itself is small with a small seating area, a very small shop area, vending machines, an information desk and toilets. There is also seating on the platform, and a good bit of the platform is covered so protects you from the rain. Conductors are available to buy tickets from. So the station has all the essentials but isn’t anything fancy.

The first time I jumped off the train at Lisburn, I felt like I had been travelled back about fifty or sixty years, and began to reminisce about that scene in ‘Prince Caspian’, where the four children are standing at the London Underground station ready to hop off to boarding school. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know what I mean.
If you haven’t, Lisburn Station is a nineteenth century building — a cute little rustic one at that. With it’s green doors, large windows and butter-​coloured brick, it could be straight out of ‘The Railway Children’, or something along those lines.
Due to its size, the building itself only has a few benches, vending machines, toilets and information /​timetables. The bare essentials, one could say. There is another sheltered seating area on the other side of the platform (for the trains heading to Belfast), but there’s no ticket booth — conductors parade the platforms to ensure you’re ready to go. Beware, if you get on at Lisburn without a ticket, you’ll face a hefty fine. Make sure you approach a conductor!
By no means modern, Lisburn Station maintains its wonderful old-​school charm extremely well. Just be careful you don’t get whisked off to Narnia…