Aldergrove railway station

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Aldergrove railway station was a small, now-closed station in Aldergrove, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was located south of Antrim, near RAF Aldergrove and Belfast International Airport.

The station opened in 1871 on the Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway, which later became part of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in 1879. In 1958 the line passed to the Ulster Transport Authority, which stopped passenger services, and the station closed in 1960.

In the 2010s there were discussions about reopening the station to serve Belfast International Airport. The Lisburn–Antrim line, on which the station sits, was closed in 2003, so any new link would require new infrastructure. In 2014 the Department for Regional Development suggested that a reopened Antrim to Knockmore/Lisburn line could provide a rail link to the airport, but this would likely only be economically viable if airport passenger numbers grew to about 10 million per year. In 2013 the airport handled about 4 million passengers; by 2023 this rose to around 5.9 million.