Ballymacarrett Junction

Location type

Junction


Name and dates

Ballymacarrett Junction

Opened on the Belfast and County Down Railway.

Opened on the Belfast Central Railway.



Dates

  /  /1874Belfast Central Railway
Opened to goods and minerals from Central Junction [Belfast] (also known as Ulster Junction with the Ulster Railway) to East Bridge Junction (branch to Queen's Bridge on the west bank of the River Laggan) and Ballymacarrett Junction (Belfast and County Down Railway) and Abercorn Basin.
  /  /1945Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway
Collision in fog at Ballymacarrett Junction results in 23 deaths.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Lanarkshire's Lost Railways

Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844
The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways
Vanished Railways of West Lothian