Rail halt in Craigavon given ‘huge boost’ by All Island review of …

Translink train - hopes high for a rail halt in Craigavon, Co Armagh. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press (Photo: Colm Lenaghan)

Translink train – hopes high for a rail halt in Craigavon, Co Armagh. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press (Photo: Colm Lenaghan)

Following the publication of the draft review of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review which proposed a greater network including linking the Londonderry/Derry line with Portadown, Sinn Féin MLA John O’Dowd said the ‘recommendation to have a new rail station in Craigavon is an acknowledgement of the benefits this proposal would bring to the area’.