J4690 : Railway near Whitehead and Cloghan

taken 14 years ago, near to Whitehead, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

Railway near Whitehead and Cloghan
Railway near Whitehead and Cloghan
The railway follows the shore of Belfast Lough for most of the journey between Downshire J4288 : Departure from Downshire station and Whitehead J4791 : Whitehead railway station stations. In this case the 11.19 Belfast Gt Victoria Street – Larne Harbour (Saturday timetable for the Bank Holiday) is approaching the old White Harbour J4690 : The White harbour, Whitehead (bottom left) after passing the Kilroot power station oil tanks landward of Cloghan jetty J4790 : Cloghan jetty, Belfast Lough (top). The line, now single, was once double track.
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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J4690, 19 images   (more nearby search)
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Date Taken
Wednesday, 17 March, 2010   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 17 March, 2010
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Railway   (more nearby)
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! J 468 905 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:44.4879N 5:43.2688W
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Irish: geotagged! J 473 910
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Southwest (about 225 degrees)
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