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Iniscarn Close, LISBURN, BT28 2BX

Social housing between the Ballinderry Road (behind me) and the Causeway End Road.

103 “Merlin” on the third line, between Knockmore and the Causeway End Road bridge, with the 08.00 Londonderry – Belfast Central. See Image for a comparison 32 years later.

This is the (closed) entrance to the platform on the right in Image It was served only by Antrim line trains. For comparison see Image (April 2013).

The railway was closed today between Belfast Central and Whiteabbey. Larne line passengers used a substitute bus between the two stations. Londonderry line trains were diverted via the mothballed Lisburn –Antrim line. C4K set 4002 has just passed the former Knockmore station Image and is climbing towards the Causeway End Road bridge with the 07.55 Coleraine – Belfast Central. This one Image (May 1982) makes an interesting comparison between the rolling stock and the growth of the lineside vegetation. Continue to Image

One of NIR's MED sets pauses at Knockmore halt on the Lisburn - Antrim line with the 15.50 passenger train from Lisburn to Antrim, running 30 minutes late. Due to a long planning dispute, the direct line from Lisburn to the former Antrim branch junction at Knockmore did not open until 1977. However, the entire Lisburn - Antrim line closed on 29 June 2003 and is currently mothballed.

A solar panel powering flashing lights on a “school” sign, on the Ballinderry Road, just outward of the former Knockmore station Image

The four-arch bridge, carrying the Ballinderry Road across the Belfast (left) – Dublin line, seen from the path to the former Knockmore station Image The far arch (never needed) was built in case the line from Knockmore Jct to Banbridge and Castlewellan was ever extended to Lisburn station. The middle two arches are for the Dublin line. The one nearest the camera was used by the third line to Antrim Image

The 11.15 Portadown – Bangor passing under the Ballinderry Road bridge. The closed Knockmore station Image and the “mothballed” third line Image and Image are on the right. The view is from the Causeway End Road bridge.

Preserved former DSER 2.6.0 No. 461 pulls away from the now closed Knockmore Halt as it approaches Lisburn on the currently "mothballed" line from Antrim.

See Image (March 2011). The skeleton of a shelter, on an overgrown platform, beside rusty track. Image shows how it looked in June 1977, before the shelter, when the line was open.