Larne Railway Station

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

This building has been demolished to make way for a new road layout together with a supermarket development. Described in the first survey in 1970 as follows - 'mid 19th century. The station has been heavily overpainted, the adjoining covered platform is of some interest; the roof supported by timber columns and trusses is finished by a sheeted fascia with carved motif.'

Historical information

Built for the Carrickfergus and Larne Railway Company to the designs of its engineer Charles Lanyon; date uncertain but a station appeared on the OS map of 1857. Later additions were built by B. D. Wise in the 1890s. Closed in 1974 and demolished c 1979.

References - Primary

1. OS Map 1857, Co Antrim 40.
2. Photograph in Green Collection, UFTM (WAG 527), c 1915.

Secondary

1. W. A. McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (HMSO, Belfast, 1980), p 172 (gives date of station as 1862).
2. D Corcoran, A Tour of East Antrim (Belfast 1990), p 3 (reproduces a photograph from the Green Collection).
3. IHR 5585

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished and replaced by a new road layout together with a supermarket development; with a new station opened nearer the town centre.