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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 in conjunction with the Isle of Man TT. Sailings to Cairnryan are operated by conventional ships and several crossings a day operate in each direction throughout the year.

Larne Harbour
General information
Location	Larne Harbour Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°50′53″N 5°47′55″W
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Platforms	2
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Key dates
1862	Original station opened
1965	Goods traffic ceased
1985	Current station opened
2012	Platforms extended
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The station co-exists with the passenger terminus for P&O Ferries ferries offering simple integration for foot passengers. However, this situation is not mirrored at the Scottish terminus of Cairnryan, where the nearest railway station, Stranraer Harbour, is five miles from Cairnryan ferry terminal.

The station was opened on 1 October 1862.[1] It was improved in 1890 by Berkeley Deane Wise to a budget of £3,000 (equivalent to £351,255 in 2021),[2] 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.[3]

Service

This station is the final outbound terminus for services on the Larne Line.

Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service to Great Victoria Street with extra services at peak times. Some of those peak services start and terminate at the nearby Larne Town station instead. During weekdays the first train leaves here at 6:05am and the last train arrives at 12:20am.[4][5]

On Sundays the service to Great Victoria Street reduces to operating every two hours.

Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways		Following station
Larne Town		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Larne		Terminus
	Ferry services
Terminus		P&O Ferries Ferry		Stranraer Harbour (via bus link from Cairnryan[6])
	Historical railways
Larne Town		Northern Counties Committee Belfast-Larne		Terminus

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