Crumlin railway station served
Crumlin in
County Antrim
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,
Northern Ireland
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but is now closed to passengers.
The station was built for the
Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway and opened on 13 November 1871.
Translink withdrew passenger services from the line when it reopened the more direct (Known as Belfast Central at the time) – route ''via'' . Translink stated that it was unable to maintain two routes to Antrim and after operating a skeleton service on the route announced that it would be mothballed.
In 2017,
Northern Ireland Railways
NI Railways, also known as Northern Ireland Railways (NIR; and for a brief period Ulster Transport Railways; UTR), is the railway operator in Northern Ireland. NIR is a subsidiary of Translink, whose parent company is the Northern Ireland Tr ...
removed the passing loop here to make the line one long siding.
References
Disused railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1871
Railway stations in Northern Ireland closed in 2003
Closed railways in Northern Ireland
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