Derriaghy railway station is located in the townland of Derriaghy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies between the centres of Belfast and Lisburn.

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Derriaghy
General information
Location	Derriaghy Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54.541594°N 6.018338°W / 54.541594; -6.018338
Owned by	NI Railways
Operated by	NI Railways
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Embankment
Key dates
1907	Station opened
1953	Station closed
1958	Station re-opened
2024	Platform 1 extended; Platform 2 rebuilt across the Queensway
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Location Derriaghy Location within Northern Ireland

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The station opened on 9 February 1907^[1] and was closed to passengers between 1953 and 1958.

Mondays to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service towards Lisburn, Portadown or Newry in one direction, and to Great Victoria Street, Belfast Central or Bangor in the other. Extra services operate at peak times, and the service reduces to hourly operation in the evenings.

On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.^[2]

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Preceding station		Northern Ireland Railways		Following station
Dunmurry		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast–Newry line		Lambeg

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In December 2018, NIR announced that 21 additional carriages would be purchased from CAF to extend 7 units from the Class 4000 fleet to be 6 carriages in length.^[3] Both platform 1 and 2 at Derriaghy were too short (only 3 carriage trains could call at the station) and each platform needed to be 150m in length,^[4] so the decision was taken to extend the Lisburn-end of platform 1 but rebuild platform 2 across the Queensway road with a ramp to make the station fully accessible.^{[citation needed]}

A planning application was submitted to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council in March 2021, of which approval was given in October 2022. Consequently, construction commenced July 2023. The new platform 2 opened on Monday 25 March 2024, and all works are due to be completed by Spring 2024.^[4]