Editing Downpatrick (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Downpatrick Station, February 2010 (01).JPG|thumb|The current [[Downpatrick railway station|Downpatrick Railway Station]]]]
*Downpatrick is situated at the junction of the [[A7 road (Northern Ireland)|A7]] (Downpatrick to [[Saintfield]] and [[Belfast]]) road, the A25 (Downpatrick to [[Newry]] and [[Dublin]]) road and the [[A2 road (Northern Ireland)|A2 coast road]]. While there are no rail services in Downpatrick, [[Ulsterbus]] provides bus services to and from the Downpatrick Bus Station.
*[[Downpatrick railway station]] on the [[Belfast and County Down Railway]], opened on 23 March 1859 and [[Downpatrick Loop Platform railway station|Downpatrick Loop Platform]] opened on 24 September 1892. Both closed on 16 January 1950. Downpatrick Racecourse Platform had opened on 8 March 1893, but closed in September 1949.<ref>{{cite web | title=Downpatrick station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=12 October 2007 | archive-date=26 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926042407/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> The current station, owned by the [[Downpatrick and County Down Railway]], was opened in the early 1990s and serves several sites of historical interest near the town, having originally been a gas manager's office situated elsewhere in Downpatrick.
*[[Translink (Northern Ireland)|Translink]] also holds the aforementioned bus station on the Ballydugan Road providing bus services to Belfast, [[Bangor, County Down|Bangor]] and Newry alongside services to local towns and townlands.