Railway arches, Finaghy, Belfast (2)
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Railway arches, Finaghy, Belfast (2)
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 17 Dec 2012
See Image In the early part of the 20th century, before the coming of the motor lorry, when the railway companies had what amounted to a monopoly of land transport, the GNR(I) made provision for adding additional capacity on the line beyond Belfast. It had built the third line Image (now removed) to the new workshops at Adelaide in 1911. Around the same time it provided two new arches at Finaghy station, under Finaghy Road North Image, and one on the Ballinderry Road, Lisburn Image where a new bridge replaced a level crossing. The scheme was abandoned with the advent of the WW1. The park and ride car park Image (right) was originally sidings (though not in my time).
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Image Location
Latitude
54.563784
Longitude
-5.987281