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    Crawfordsburn railway station served Crawfordsburn Hospital (which closed in the early 1990s) and Crawfordsburn Country Park in County Down, Northern...
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    is served by the nearby Helen's Bay railway station. Before the Plantation of Ulster, the area of Crawfordsburn was known as Ballymullan (Irish: Baile...
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    The Crawfordsburn Viaduct is a railway viaduct in Crawfordsburn, County Down, Northern Ireland. The viaduct is built out of Scrabo sandstone, and carries...
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    Helen's Bay railway station serves Helen's Bay as well as the nearby village of Crawfordsburn in the townland of Ballygrot, County Down, Northern Ireland...
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    acquired in 1905. The locomotive works were at Belfast Queen's Quay railway station and closed in 1950. New carriage works had been opened in 1886, with...
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    gCrot 'settlement of hillocks'), between Holywood, Crawfordsburn and Bangor. It is served by a railway station and had a population of 1,390 in the 2011 Census...
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    NI Railways) is a railway line in Northern Ireland, originally part of the Belfast & County Down Railway. All services are operated by NI Railways, the...
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    viaducts and significant bridges of the United Kingdom's railways, past and present. Category:Railway bridges in the United Kingdom List of bridges in the...
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    Queen's Quay railway station (also referred to as Belfast Queen's Quay) served the east of Belfast in Northern Ireland. It was formerly one of the three...
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  • is a list of closed railway stations in Ireland. Year of passenger closure is given if known. Stations reopened as Heritage railways or Luas stops continue...
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    summer months.[citation needed] Newry is the nearest station located on the Dublin-Belfast railway line with trains running on the Enterprise between Belfast...
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    housing in the area. Station Road, off the Crawfordsburn Road, is the central area of Carnalea and leads to Carnalea railway station, Carnalea Golf Club...
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    he and his wife were the targets of an IRA attack on their home in Crawfordsburn, County Down; neither Bloomfield nor his wife were injured in the blast...
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    The Belfast-Bangor railway line skirts the south shore at Holywood railway station to Marino railway station and Cultra railway station. Trains connect Belfast...
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    primary schools in nearby towns and the vicinity of Bangor such as Crawfordsburn Primary & Groomsport Primary; Priory Integrated College, Sullivan Upper...
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    Ballygowan (section Railways)
    Charging Ports. The Ballygowan railway station was opened by the Belfast and County Down Railway on 10 September 1858. The station was on the once extensive...
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    running club Newcastle railway station began operating on 25 March 1869 and closed on 2 May 1955. The Belfast & County Down Railway Station and Clock Tower is...
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    occupying Belfast. Dromore had its own railway station from 1863 to 1956. The Banbridge, Lisburn and Belfast Junction Railway (BLB) through Dromore opened in...
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    Bunscoil Bheanna Boirche Castlewellan railway station was opened on 24 March 1906 by the Great Northern Railway of Ireland, but closed on 2 May 1955....
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    Rostrevor Railway opened in 1849 and was closed down in 1965, with the railway trackbed used to build the A2 dual carriageway. Warrenpoint railway station was...
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    and County Down Railway, or BCDR, was opened from Belfast to Holywood. The Holywood railway station opened simultaneously. The railway line was extended...
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  • carried out to hides and observatories. Comber railway station on the Belfast and County Down Railway, opened on 6 May 1850, but finally closed on 24...
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    2014 and 2019. Ballynahinch railway station and Ballynahinch Junction railway station on the Belfast and County Down Railway, both opened on 10 September...
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    Dundonald was closed. Dundonald railway station was opened on 6 May 1850, but finally closed on 24 April 1950. The old railway line has now been converted...
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    champion Hillsborough railway station was opened by the Banbridge, Lisburn and Belfast Railway on 13 July 1863. The line through the station was part of the...
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    Coney or Cony is a medieval English word meaning rabbit. Coney Island railway station opened in July 1892 and was closed in January 1950. "Coney Island"...
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    townland of Ballyrobert, with Holywood to the west and Helen's Bay and Crawfordsburn to the east. Seahill was once a stand-alone settlement but it is now...
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    Victoria. Donaghadee railway station, which was open for passenger traffic from 1861 to 1950, was on the Belfast and County Down Railway. On Census day (27...
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    services from the station are provided by Northern Ireland Railways, a subsidiary of Translink. The city is also served by Hilden railway station. Ulsterbus...
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    became Ireland's first nature reserve. Dundrum railway station was opened by the Belfast & County Down Railway on 25 March 1869 and operated until 16 January...
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