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Donegore Drive, ANTRIM, BT41 1DT

A subway under Fountain Hill. It carries one of the many paths in and around the Parkhall estate.

The view from the Fountain Street overbridge towards Antrim station Image At the time, Londonderry line trains ran to Belfast York Road station Image via Monkstown Image In 1978 services were diverted to run, via Lisburn Image to Belfast Central. There was a short-lived local service over the line in 1980/81 after which it was used mainly for transfer of rolling stock. With the opening of the cross-harbour line in Belfast Image and the re-opening of Belfast Gt Victoria Street Image the route is now back in use (albeit as a single line). The train is the 12.25 Londonderry – Belfast York Road composed of MPD railcars 52,542 and 60.

Bourlon Road, Antrim. Although it has been a cul-de-sac for many years it would once have went from the Belfast Road, where the photo was taken from, to the Greystone Road. After realigning the Greystone Road to link it to the then just completed Fountain Hill, Bourlon Road was terminated near the spot where it would have joined the Greystone Road. This would have happened in the late '60's when Antrim started to rapidly expand with the arrival of the British Enkalon factory manufacturing nylon thread and a consequent growth in the population coming from all over N. Ireland for the well-paid jobs which became available. Unfortunately the boom times ended suddenly in 1980 when Enkalon closed down, unable to compete with cheap nylon products from the Far East.

NIR diesel hydraulic locomotive no3, running light from York Road to Ballymena, approaching Antrim station (middle top). The entire stretch of line from Monkstown to Ballymena was subsequently singled.

A roundabout at the junction of Fountain Street and Belfast Road.

Cut bench mark on a railway bridge at Fountain Street, Antrim. The mark has been levelled to 39.13 metres above MSL.

The "Top of the Town" is the name of this watering hole close to the Fountain Street/Belfast Road roundabout.

Milepost 18¼ (from Knockmore Image) and a speed restriction sign (for the facing crossover to the former NCC mainline) on the approach to Antrim station. Image shows them in their setting, on the “mothballed” line to Lisburn.

The “mothballed” line to Lisburn, looking towards Antrim station, seen from the overbridge at Fountain Street.

The down home signal at the junction between the ex GNR(I) line from Lisburn /Knockmore Jct and the NCC Belfast – Londonderry line. Interesting in that the signal to the main line is a GNR(I) lower quadrant while the others are NCC miniature somersaults (both minus their spectacles). Now replaced by colour lights. The locomotive is running towards the camera.