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Railway Street, BANBRIDGE, BT32 3DY

Railway Street once ran from Bridge Street Image to Reilly Street Image It had redbrick terrace houses, cottages, an undertaker, a bookie, the market yard, a shoe shop, a printer and a coal yard. This is what is left (Reilly Street end).

What must be the only building left of the old GNR(I) railway line that ran through Banbridge until 1955. It's the former engine shed that is now used by Ulster Bus, whose depot is on the site of the now demolished station. Easy to spot from the walk alongside the Ban river it is almost invisible from the Downshire road running alongside it.

Post-mounted EIIR letter box at the bottom of Reilly Street – visible at lower right in Image

The new neo-Georgian Council offices under construction in 1980. They were built on the site of the old market yard off Railway Street. The red-brick wall marks the course of the Castlewellan (left) – Banbridge section of the old GNR(I) line to Knockmore Jct (closed 1955). The line crossed the Downshire Road (foreground but at a site out of photo to the right) by a low overbridge. After the line closed the bridge was demolished allowing the road to be opened to through traffic.

Underwood Terrace is the last surviving row of houses from the Reilly Street of 100 years ago.

An Ulsterbus Wright-bodied Scania on the Downshire Road. It had just dropped a party off for the nearby leisure centre. The depot Image can be seen in the background.

They might be common but this one, on the Downshire Road, is the first I have noticed. The following is an extract from the on line Britannica: “In 1970 Saint-Gobain merged with Pont-à-Mousson, a company founded in 1856 to produce pig iron and iron castings. By the time of the merger, Pont-à-Mousson had become a leader in metallurgy and the building trade.”

The original church was built in 1742. The present church was built in 1844 (or 1846 depending on the source used). See also Image and Image

The Downshire Road runs from the bottom of Bridge Street to the Huntly Road (background). The Unitarian church Image is on the right. Hard to imagine now but the railway to Castlewellan and Newcastle once crossed, by a bridge, close to the end of the line of parked cars (right).

All that remains of the crane on the site of the former GNR(I) Banbridge station. No idea why this was chosen to remain when the station and its goods yard where demolished after the station was closed in 1955. The site is now used by Banbridge Leisure Centre which covers the area that was the goods yard. The site that the station stood is now used by Ulster Bus where only the original engine shed still stands http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/635454.