1894 – Clarke Station, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Built to replace a station originally designed by Sir John MacNeil around 1850, Clarke Station is situated at track level beneath the surrounding street level and is the finest station on the main Dublin –
Built to replace a station originally designed by Sir John MacNeil around 1850, Clarke Station is situated at track level beneath the surrounding street level and is the finest station on the main Dublin –
The opening of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway (E&BR) in 1868 connected Bundoran with Ireland’s growing railway network and made the town more accessible from Belfast,
Warrenpoint and Rostrevor were popular seaside holiday destinations. The railway companies built hotels and many local women opened boarding houses in the three seaside resorts at Warrenpoint,
Rebuilt by Chief Engineer of the GNR William Hemingway Mills in 1897 to replace the earlier Ulster Railway building of 1839.
Originally opened in 1845 for the Ulster Railway Company, but rebuilt in the Great Northern Railway house-style in the late 1890s.
Tearoom pavilion constructed by the Great Northern Railway in Warrenpoint town park. The company heavily marketed the town as a destination for daytrippers and seaside holiays.
Designed in a similar style to other stations on this line notably Dundalk and Drogheda,
Unlike many stations on the Great Northern Railway, Victoria Bridge station was of wood and not the polychromic brick used by Mills.
The first terminus of the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) opened their line south from Downpatrick in March 1869, but the current building dates from a 1905 remodelling when the Great Northern Railway of Ireland arrived here from Banbridge.
Only the gaunt steel supports of this railway viaduct now stand – both the track bed and the railway embankments having been cleared since the line closed.