J2664 : Freight train on Antrim Street bridge, Lisburn - 1975

taken 50 years ago, near to Lisburn, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

Freight train on Antrim Street bridge, Lisburn - 1975
Freight train on Antrim Street bridge, Lisburn - 1975
CIE "A" class Co-Co diesel locomotive No. A34r (Metropolitan Vickers 1956) is on the Antrim Street bridge as it collects a freight train from the "third road" at Lisburn station. Once a lengthy siding, the "third road" became part of a direct line from Lisburn to Knockmore. Later numbered 034, the locomotive was scrapped in September 1992.
Railway bridge, Lisburn

An underbridge carrying the Belfast – Portadown/Dublin railway across Antrim Street/the Antrim Road.

Lisburn, Knockmore Jct and Antrim railway

The line between Knockmore Jct and Antrim opened in 1871 with intermediate stations, halts and calling places at Brookmount, Brookhill. Meeting House, Ballinderry, Legatiriff, Glenavy, Crumlin, Aldergrove and Millar’s Bridge. It closed to passengers in 1960 but remained open for cross-Border freight trains to/from Londonderry. A local passenger service, from Lisburn to Antrim serving Ballinderry, Glenavy and Crumlin, was restored in 1974. The signal cabin and junction at Knockmore Jct closed in 1977 with the opening of a third line to Lisburn which included a Knockmore halt at the Ballinderry Road, Lisburn.
Belfast – Londonderry/Portrush trains were diverted to the line in 1978 and used it until 2001. A local passenger service remained until 2003. The line is now “mothballed” with no immediate prospect of re-opening (September 2011).
A Translink press release dated 11 August 2014 included the following: “As part of the works, FP McCann have been carrying out sleeper replacement and fitting insulated block joints, installing new drainage systems and undertaking structural repairs to existing culverts along the line section. Oliver Watts, Project Manager, Translink said, “The main outcome of these works will be to ensure the on-going serviceability of the branch line for safe operational use as a diversion route in the event of an emergency or planned engineering works’. We would remind the public to keep safe and avoid trespassing or to enter the railway environment at all times. Work on the line is expected to be completed in November.”

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J2664, 512 images   (more nearby search)
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Date Taken
Saturday, 5 April, 1975   (more nearby)
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Sunday, 17 November, 2013
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Business, Retail, Services  City, Town centre  Railways 
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! J 263 645 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:30.8099N 6:2.9618W
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Irish: geotagged! J 263 645
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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