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Buses, Ballygowan (February 2015)
Left to right – Ulsterbus Irizar-bodied Scania (615 NFZ 9615), Wright-bodied Scania (421 UEZ 2421), Wright-bodied Volvo (2224 OEZ 7224) and another Wright-bodied Volvo (2223 OEZ 7223) lined up at Ballygowan depot.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 9 Feb 2015
0.09 miles
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Former railway station, Ballygowan (3)
All trace of the former passenger station (foreground) has gone. Only the old goods shed survives.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
0.10 miles
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Meadow Way, Ballygowan
This is another new estate, reflecting the rise of a third in the town's population between 2001 and 2011.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 2 Aug 2013
0.10 miles
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Former railway station, Ballygowan (1)
30 years after the line had closed the goods shed remained but the passenger station had been demolished. The site is now protected by a high fence.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 20 Jul 1980
0.10 miles
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Former railway station, Ballygowan (2)
The Comber/Belfast end of the old goods shed. The Ulsterbus depot is on the other side, separated from the former passenger station by a fence.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
0.11 miles
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Former railway goods shed, Ballygowan (February 2015)
The former Belfast and County Down Railway goods shed is still standing beside the Saintfield Road but with a new shutter door since this one
Image in January 2012.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 9 Feb 2015
0.11 miles
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Former railway gate, Ballygowan (February 2015)
A wall and gate beside the Saintfield Road close to the former goods shed
Image (background). The gate might be original but the wall has the appearance of something built when the road was widened.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 9 Feb 2015
0.11 miles
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Former goods shed, Ballygowan
The goods shed at Ballygowan Station (closed 1950). Ballygowan was once a stop on the Belfast & County Down Railway from Belfast Queen's Quay to Newcastle.
Image: © Dean Molyneaux
Taken: 25 Oct 2009
0.11 miles
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The Saintfield Road, Ballygowan (February 2015)
The old line (left), now stopped up, and the present line of the Saintfield Road. I don’t know when the road was rebuilt but it seems reasonable to suggest that it might have been the mid to late 1960’s.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 9 Feb 2015
0.12 miles
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Pillar box, Ballygowan
EIIR pillar box (and recycling bin) outside the post office on the Saintfield Road.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 21 Jan 2012
0.12 miles