J3476 : "Jeep", York Road, Belfast

taken 40 years ago, near to Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

"Jeep", York Road, Belfast
"Jeep", York Road, Belfast
See J3476 : Class WT steam locomotive at York Road (December 1970). The sole surviving “WT” class locomotive is no 4 – owned by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland LinkExternal link. It was in the process of running round empty stock before going to Antrim to work a private charter. This view is from the end of the platform of the old York Road station – well south of that in the link.
Other features in the photograph include this feed mill J3476 : Thompson's feed mill, Belfast, Jennymount chimney J3476 : Jennymount Mill, Belfast (6), the previous footbridge to North Derby Street J3476 : Jennymount footbridge, Belfast and York Road signal cabin (middle right).
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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Saturday, 30 June, 1984   (more nearby)
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Monday, 7 January, 2013
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Suburb, Urban fringe  Railways 
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Irish: geotagged! J 343 760 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:36.8875N 5:55.3146W
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Irish: geotagged! J 342 759
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NORTH (about 0 degrees)
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