Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Trooperslane Station,
Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Demolished
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Trooperslane Station,, Trooperslane Road,, Carrickfergus,, Co Antrim, BT38, **See General Comments**
- Council
- Mid and East Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.71029, -5.84921
- Date of survey
- 15 December 2008
- HB reference
- HB22/07/014
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1866 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
The station lies on the Belfast-Carrickfergus line and was opened by the Belfast & Ballymena Railway Company in 1848. In 1895, the Belfast & Northern County Railway (which had taken over the B&BR) erected a half-timbered station building on the ‘up’ platform (to Belfast) and timber waiting shed on the ‘down’ platform (to Carrickfergus), both designed by their chief engineer, Berkley Dean Wise in collaboration with the architect John Hanna.
When the station was de-staffed in the late 1990s, these buildings were vandalised and subsequently demolished, leaving only the two brick platforms. Translink erected two metal and glass waiting shelters and resurfaced the platforms as part of the station’s refurbishment in 2008.
No traces of the former buildings survive and the surviving platforms are only of local industrial heritage significance.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
General comments
This is a partial record only for a building that was recorded in the first survey but not listed and then was demolished before the Second Survey.
Nearby in the register
- Seapark House, 109 Shore Road, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, BT38 8TZHouseunder 1 mi
- The LodgeGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- 107 Shore RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Newbath House, 105 Shore Road, Greenisland, Co Antrim BT38 8TZHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.