J4694 : Railway bridge, Ballycarry station - August 2018(1)

taken 6 years ago, near to Ballycarry, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

Railway bridge, Ballycarry station - August 2018(1)
Railway bridge, Ballycarry station - August 2018(1)
The bridge from the Islandmagee side. The raised walls make it very difficult to take photographs such as J4694 : Train and snow - Ballycarry (March 1980) and J4694 : Train, Ballycarry (1985) (June 1985).
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).

Road bridge, Ballycarry station

A hump bridge, carrying the Island Road Lower/Lough Road across the railway, at the Larne Harbour end of Ballycarry station.  Safety improvements, involving single-line traffic controlled by lights, road narrowing and widening the footpath were completed at the end of 2015. The bridge walls were raised.

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Thursday, 2 August, 2018   (more nearby)
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Thursday, 2 August, 2018
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Roads, Road transport  Railways 
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Ballycarry 
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Northern Ireland Railways 
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Bridge 
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Irish: geotagged! J 463 945 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:46.6552N 5:43.5573W
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Irish: geotagged! J 463 945
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