J4692 : Railway near Whitehead
near to Whitehead and Gransha, Ireland
Railway near Whitehead
The 10.44 Larne Harbour – Belfast Gt Victoria Street (Saturday timetable for the Bank Holiday) approaching the Slaughterford Bridge J4692 : The Slaughterford Bridge, Whitehead. Bentra golf course is on the left. The circular object (middle bottom), looking like a discarded wheel trim, is a drain. This section of line has no significant gradients.
The Belfast - Larne railway
The line between Belfast York Road and Larne Harbour opened as far to Carrickfergus in 1848 and from Carrickfergus to Larne Harbour in 1862. There were stations at Belfast York Road (1848), Greencastle (1849/1916), Whitehouse (old station 1861/1906 replaced by a new station, further north 1906/1954), Whiteabbey (1848), Bleach Green 1934/1977), Jordanstown (by 1853), Trooperslane (by 1850), Mount (1925/72), Carrickfergus (old station 1848/62), Clipperstown (1925), Carrickfergus (1862), Barn (1925/77), Downshire (originally Downshire Park, 1925), Eden (1925/77), Kilroot (1862/77), Whitehead (first station 1863/64), Whitehead (second station 1864/77), Whitehead (1877), Whitehead Excursion (1907), Ballycarry (1862), Ballylig (now Magheramorne, 1862), Glynn (1864), Larne (1862/1974), Larne Town (new alignment, 1974) and Larne Harbour (1862).
York Road station closed in 1992, replaced by Yorkgate (on a different site) as part of the opening of the new cross-harbour line to Belfast Central.
The line between Belfast Central and Bleach Green Jct is also used by trains serving the Londonderry/Portrush lines.
Sources: Irish Railways Today (1967), the Northern Counties Railway (1973) and Johnson’s Atlas & Gazetteer of the Railways of Ireland (1997).
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2010
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- Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 (more nearby)
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- Wednesday, 17 March, 2010
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- Railway (more nearby)
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Irish:
J 469 927 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:45.6706N 5:43.0905W - Photographer Location
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Irish: J 469 927
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- Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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