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Whiteabbey Railway Station

Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Whiteabbey Railway Station, Antrim and Newtownabbey, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
No type recorded
Address
Whiteabbey Railway Station, Station Road, Whiteabbey, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, BT37 0AQ
Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.67217, -5.90425
Date of survey
16 October 2008
HB reference
HB21/09/001

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1697 · Scotia, Parte Meridionale (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Multi-bay single-storey railway station, built c.1850. Pitched roof with deep overhanging eaves; red brick walling with yellow brick dressings; round-arched-headed windows. The building was not listed during the First Survey and has since been demolished.

The First Survey card records:

'A long single storey red brick range with a two-storey block to the north end. Yellow brick trim around openings which have now been closed up. Facing this across on the other side of track is a platform shelter from the B.D.Wise era red brick with timber framing and a big overhanging roof on an interesting truss system. Fretted barge boards. Also a stone bridge over the railway at north end of platforms

Station built 1863-4 but the waiting room accommodation on down platform is later, probably 1890s. (W A McCutcheon The Ind Archaeology of NI p166)'

Historical information

N/A

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Building demolished

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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