Moorfields railway station was on the Ballymena and Larne Railway which ran from Ballymena to

Larne Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic territory) is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the 2011 Census. It is a major passenger and freight roll-on roll-off port. Larne is administered by Mid ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

History

The station was opened by the Ballymena and Larne Railway on 24 August 1880. It was taken over by the

Belfast and Northern Counties Railway The Northern Counties Committee (NCC) was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. It was built to Irish gauge () but later acquired a number of narrow gauge lines. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway that opened to ...

in July 1889. This was in turn taken over by the Northern Counties Committee in 1906. It became an unmanned halt from July 1924. The station closed to passengers on 31 January 1933.

References

* * * {{coord, 54.826286, -6.147999, type:railwaystation, display=title Disused railway stations in County Antrim Railway stations opened in 1878 Railway stations closed in 1933 Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in the 1870s