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80-class railcars, Clipperstown
The 12.12 Belfast Central – Carrickfergus (background) departing Clipperstown. This stock is due for replacement next year.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 3 Mar 2010
0.06 miles
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Gill's Almshouses, Carrickfergus (3)
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Image The plaque recording the building and renovation dates as 1761 and 1904 respectively. Subsequent research by architectural historians shows that the row is not the original almshouses. They were replaced by the present buildings in 1820. There was a second renovation in 1980.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 5 Feb 2011
0.06 miles
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Gill's Almshouses, Carrickfergus (2)
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Image The other Gill’s Almshouses - in Ellis Street. For more about the date of building see
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Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 5 Feb 2011
0.06 miles
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Clipperstown station, Carrickfergus
Clipperstown station opened in 1925 and was a basic halt with corrugated iron shelters (but not with the ascetic merit of a Great Western “pagoda”) and short platforms. The platforms are now longer and the shelters are the modern equivalent. There were sidings to a salt works and the branch to Carrickfergus harbour diverged on the Belfast side. This is the view to Larne Harbour.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 29 Sep 2006
0.11 miles
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Clipperstown Railway Station
The platforms and track at Clipperstown, Carrickfergus.
Image: © Rossographer
Taken: 20 Jul 2021
0.12 miles
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Tesco Extra, Minorca Place, Carrickfergus, N. Ireland
Large supermarket with cafe upstairs. There is also a fuel station on the site.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 6 Oct 2021
0.12 miles
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Clipperstown station, Carrickfergus (2)
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Image and
Image The station has been modified to comply with the statutory obligation to provide access for the disabled. The view is towards Belfast. Continue to
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Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 3 Mar 2010
0.13 miles
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Clipperstown station, Carrickfergus (5)
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Image Four years later and Clipperstown still had the utilitarian shelters of (painted) brick and concrete. The train is the 12.20 Belfast York Road – Larne Harbour.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 18 Jun 1988
0.14 miles
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Clipperstown station, Carrickfergus (4)
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Image Five years earlier when Clipperstown station had utilitarian shelters of (painted) brick and concrete. This was an Easter Tuesday when the junior lodges walked to the field on the Woodburn Road. The train is the timetabled 10.25 Belfast York Road – Carrickfergus (91, 778, 733). The previous timetable train had been the 09.45 ex-York Road but there had also been specials at 10.00 and 10.10 and a relief which followed this. This signal
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Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 24 Apr 1984
0.14 miles
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Departing Clipperstown station
The 11.57 Larne Harbour – Belfast Central, formed of 1986-built 450-class railcars, departing Clipperstown, under the Woodburn Road bridge.
Image: © Albert Bridge
Taken: 3 Mar 2010
0.14 miles