J3474 : DH No. 2 in CSD - 1989

taken 35 years ago, near to Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

DH No. 2 in CSD - 1989
DH No. 2 in CSD - 1989
Road access to CSD was via the now vanished Scrabo Street and the sidings beside this entrance were generally filled with stock awaiting disposal. Seen here, 1969 built diesel hydraulic No. 2 will escape the scrap-man for further use in Sri Lanka. The former carriage sheds seen in J3474 : Queen's Quay station - station to Ballymacarrett Junction (1) are in the background. All locations are approximate as this site is now under the M3 motorway/cross-harbour link.
Queen’s Quay railway station, Belfast and Central Services Depot

Situated on the County Down side of the River Lagan, Queen’s Quay station opened in 1848 as the Belfast terminus for the Belfast & County Down Railway (BCDR). The Belfast Holywood & Bangor Railway built a separate terminus in 1865 and this was combined with the BCDR buildings when the two companies merged in 1884. However, the original structures were largely demolished when Queen’s Quay station was extensively rebuilt in 1910-14.
The BCDR was acquired by the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) in 1948 and Queen’s Quay suffered grievously following closure of the BCDR main line to Newcastle in 1950. In the early 1950s, the UTA removed the overall roof while track to Platform 5 and the surviving locomotive release roads were lifted in the early 1960s. The former BCDR freight sheds were also abandoned.
Formed in 1967, Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) closed Queen’s Quay station on 10 April 1976, services transferring to the new Belfast Central Station. By this time, Queen’s Quay was a pale shadow of its former glory with much internal damage due to terrorist attacks. Although the station was later demolished, the former yards and servicing facilities became Central Services Depot (CSD), being used by NIR for stock storage and railcar maintenance. CSD closed in November 1994 on completion of the cross-harbour rail & road links and the entire Queen’s Quay site is now buried under the M3 motorway.
For the purpose of this Shared Description, Queen’s Quay covers the area out to Ballymacarrett Junction. For photographs of surviving structures on the BCDR line to Newcastle (and branches), see: LinkExternal link . For photographs on the line between Ballymacarrett Junction and Bangor, see: LinkExternal link

"DH" locomotives, Northern Ireland Railways

A class of three diesel-hydraulic six-coupled locomotives introduced by NIR in 1969 built by English Electric/AEI with a 620hp Dorman engine. They were mainly used for permanent way trains and shunting and were withdrawn between 1986 and 1989. This link LinkExternal link has more information about their life after withdrawal.

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J3474, 4349 images   (more nearby search)
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Date Taken
Sunday, 4 June, 1989   (more nearby)
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Friday, 27 December, 2013
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Historic sites and artefacts  Business, Retail, Services  Suburb, Urban fringe  Railways 
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! J 348 745 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:36.0662N 5:54.8922W
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Irish: geotagged! J 348 745
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