This bridge carries the single-line railway track from Lisburn to Antrim. It crosses both the road and the Crumlin river. It was built in 1915 by James Findlay and Co. Ltd. of Motherwell.
Mill Road in Crumlin - the bridge carries the mothballed Lisburn-Antrim railway line over the road. See J1576 : Railway Bridge taken on the same road in 2005 from the opposite direction.
With the CIE weed control train unavailable in 1975, Northern Ireland Railways experimented with a somewhat "Heath-Robinson" arrangement which consisted of water-tanks mounted on a bogie flat-wagon and manual spraying. This... (more)
Now there's a man that enjoys his work. Noel Playfair, a diesel train driver at the controls of the RPSI preserved steam engine UTA 4.
Noel Playfair is the only NIR driver passed out to drive steam engines.
Long may he continue.
For many years, Northern Ireland Railways hired the CIE/Irish Rail weed control train for a circuit of the NIR system. In 1989, the train was hauled throughout by NIR 101-class diesel locomotive No. 101 "Eagle", built by BREL in... (more)
The original bridge is said to have been made of wood, also by a Scottish Company, and moved to Belfast where it straddled the Dublin line at the new Winsor Park football ground to allow supporters access across the tracks to the ground. Can this be confirmed?