J3584 : "Park and ride" sign, Jordanstown station

taken 10 years ago, near to Whiteabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

"Park and ride" sign, Jordanstown station
"Park and ride" sign, Jordanstown station
A sign, on the Jordanstown Road close to the level crossing J3584 : Jordanstown level crossing, Newtownabbey, advising that the park and ride car park in now open. See also J3683 : "Park and ride" sign, Jordanstown (December 2013).
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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Sunday, 30 March, 2014   (more nearby)
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Sunday, 30 March, 2014
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Roads, Road transport  Railways 
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Northern Ireland Railways 
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Irish: geotagged! J 358 841 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:41.2368N 5:53.6779W
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Irish: geotagged! J 358 841
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