Belfast and County Down Railway

Former Irish railway linking Belfast with County Down

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Belfast and County Down Railway

1926 map of the BCDR

Overview
Dates of operation| 2 August 1848–1 October 1948
Predecessor| Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway (1864-1884)
Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway (1869-1884)
Successor| Ulster Transport Authority
Technical
Track gauge| 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)
Length| 80 miles (130 km) (1925)[1]
Track length| 127 miles 11 chains (204.6 km) (1925)[1]

The Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) linking Belfast with County Down.[2] It was built in the 19th century and absorbed into the Ulster Transport Authority in 1948. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway.

## History

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United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1846

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act for making a Railway from Belfast to Downpatrick, with Branches to the Towns of Holywoody Newtownards, Bangory and Donaghadecy all in the County of Down.
Citation| 9 & 10 Vict. c. lxxxvii
Dates
Royal assent| 26 June 1846
Other legislation
Repealed by|

* Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1855

Status: Repealed

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1855

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to enable the Belfast and County Down Railway Company to extend their Railway in the County of Down.
Citation| 18 & 19 Vict. c. xviii
Dates
Royal assent| 25 May 1855
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes|

* Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1846

Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1858

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to extend the Time for purchasing certain Lands required by the Belfast and County Down Railway Company, and for other Purposes connected with the same Company.
Citation| 21 & 22 Vict. c. lxxviii
Dates
Royal assent| 12 July 1858

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Amendment Act 1860

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to enable the Belfast and County Down Railway Company to abandon Part of the Bangor Branch; to extend the Time for the Completion of the Remainder of such Branch, and of the Donaghadee Branch; and for other Purposes.
Citation| 23 & 24 Vict. c. lx
Dates
Royal assent| 25 May 1860
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway Act 1860

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act for making a Railway from the Belfast and County Down Railway at Holywood to Bangor in the County of Down in Ireland.
Citation| 23 & 24 Vict. c. lxi
Dates
Royal assent| 25 May 1860
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway (Bangor Branch Abandonment) Act 1861

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to authorize the entire Abandonment of the Bangor Branch of the Belfast and County Down Railway.
Citation| 24 & 25 Vict. c. lxiv
Dates
Royal assent| 12 June 1861

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway Act 1863

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to grant further Powers to the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Company, and to extend the Time for the Completion of their Undertaking; to authorize Contributions towards a Quay and other Works at Bangor; and for other Purposes.
Citation| 26 & 27 Vict. c. cxxiii
Dates
Royal assent| 13 July 1863
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway (Holywood Branch Transfer) Act 1865

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to authorize the Transfer to the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Company of the Holywood Branch of the Belfast and County Down Railway; and for other Purposes relating to such Transfer.
Citation| 28 & 29 Vict. c. cxcviii
Dates
Royal assent| 29 June 1865
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway Act 1866

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Dowmpatrick through Dundrum to Newcastle in the County of Down.
Citation| 29 & 30 Vict. c. ccclxii
Dates
Royal assent| 10 August 1866
Other legislation
Amended by|

* Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway Act 1868

United Kingdom legislation

Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway Act 1868

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to amend The Downpatrick, Dundrum, and Newcastle Railway Act, 1866.
Citation| 31 & 32 Vict. c. lxviii
Dates
Royal assent| 25 June 1868
Other legislation
Amends|

* Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway Act 1866

Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway (Lease) Act 1870

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to enable the Downpatrick, Dundrum, and Newcastle Railway Company to grant a lease of their undertaking; and for other purposes.
Citation| 33 & 34 Vict. c. cxi
Dates
Royal assent| 4 July 1870
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway (Lease) Act 1873

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act for the Lease of the Undertaking of the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Company.
Citation| 36 & 37 Vict. c. cclii
Dates
Royal assent| 5 August 1873
Other legislation
Repealed by|

* Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway Act 1876

Status: Repealed

Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1876

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Citation| 39 & 40 Vict. c. ccvii

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Act 1876

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act for the arrangement of the affairs of the Belfast Holywood and Bangor Railway Company.
Citation| 39 & 40 Vict. c. clxv
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway (Newcastle Transfer) Act 1881

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to transfer to the Belfast and County Down Railway Company the Downpatrick, Dundrum, and Newcastle Railway; and for other purposes.
Citation| 44 & 45 Vict. c. ccxiii
Dates
Royal assent| 22 August 1881
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway (Bangor Transfer) Act 1884

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to transfer to the Belfast and County Down Railway Company the Belfast Holywood and Bangor Railway; and for other purposes.
Citation| 47 & 48 Vict. c. cxx
Dates
Royal assent| 14 July 1884
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1891

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to enable the Belfast and County Down Railway Company to construct a new Railway to widen and improve portions of their existing Railway to purchase additional lands and to raise additional capital and for other purposes.
Citation| 54 & 55 Vict. c. xcviii
Dates
Royal assent| 3 July 1891
Text of statute as originally enacted

United Kingdom legislation

Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1900

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to authorise the Belfast and County Down Railway Company to construct a railway from Newcastle to join the railway of the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) at Castlewellan to run over and use a portion of the railway of that Company to confer further powers upon the Company with reference to steam vessels and further powers in connexion with their undertaking and for other purposes.
Citation| 63 & 64 Vict. c. cxxx
Dates
Royal assent| 30 July 1900
Text of statute as originally enacted

The company was incorporated by the Belfast and County Down Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. lxxxvii) on 26 June 1846 with the first section of line from Belfast to Holywood opening for traffic on 2 August 1848. The line was further extended to Bangor by the Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway (BHBR), opening on 1 May 1865, and acquired by the BCDR under the Belfast and County Down Railway (Bangor Transfer) Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. cxx). The line to Downpatrick was opened on 25 March 1859. The line from Downpatrick to Newcastle was built by the Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway, opening on 25 March 1869 and absorbed by BCDR under the Belfast and County Down Railway (Newcastle Transfer) Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. ccxiii).[3] The railway's first chief engineer was Sir John Macneill, who was responsible for allowing the railway to cross the marshy River Quoile.

Railway-owned steam driven lorry, early 20th century.

A branch to Ballynahinch was opened in 1858 via Ballynahinch Junction.

A branch line from Downpatrick to Ardglass was opened in 1892, as was a loop line at Downpatrick. This resulted in a 'triangle'-shaped track layout just outside of Downpatrick, allowing trains between Belfast and Newcastle to collect and drop off passengers at the Loop Platform, who would be ferried between there and the main station at Downpatrick by a local train. Thanks to the triangular layout, trains were still capable of operating directly from the main Downpatrick station to Belfast or Newcastle. The branch from Newcastle to Castlewellan was opened on 24 March 1906.[3]

By 1948 the company had 29 locomotives. Two steam railcars from Kitson & Company were acquired in 1905. The locomotive works were at Belfast Queen's Quay railway station and closed in 1950. New carriage works had been opened in 1886, with the last carriage being built in 1923.[3]

## Routes

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* t
* e

Belfast and County Down Railway

Legend

| Great Northern Railway

to Dublin

|  |

| Northern Counties Committee

to Londonderry

| GNR↑

BCR↓

|  |
City Hospital |  |

|  |

| NI Maintenance Shops

(on site of York Road)

Botanic |  |

|  | Yorkgate
Belfast Lanyon Place |  |

|  | Belfast Grand Central

Great Northern Railway

|  |

|  |

Queen's Bridge

| BCR and County Antrim↑

B&CDR and County Down↓

|  |

River Lagan

|  |

|  |

Cross Harbour Rail Link

|  |

|  | Queen's Quay
Titanic Quarter |  |

|  |

| B&CDR Depot and

Carriage Works

|  |

|  |

Siding to port railways

| Ballymacarrett

Junctions

|  |
Fraser Street Halt |  |

|  | Ballymacarrett
|  |

|  | Victoria Park
|  |

|  | Sydenham
Bloomfield |  |

|  | Tillysburn
Neill's Hill |  |

|  |

Belfast City limits

|  |

|  | Kinnegar

sand pits siding

|  |

|  | Holywood

Belfast City limits

|  |

|  | Marino
|  |

|  | Cultra Halt
Comber Greenway |  |

|  | Craigavad
|  |

|  | Seahill
Knock |  |

|  | Helen's Bay
Dundonald |  |

|  | Crawfordsburn
|  |

|  | Carnalea
Comber |  |

|  | Bangor West

Andrew's Mill siding

|  |

|  | Bangor
Ballygowan |  |

|  | Newtownards
Shepherd's Bridge Halt |  |

|  | Conlig
Saintfield |  |

|  | Ballygrainey
Ballynahinch Junction |  |

|  | Millisle Road Halt
|  |

|  | Donaghadee
Creevyargon Halt |  |

|  | Crossgar
Ballynahinch |  |

|  | King's Bridge Halt
|  |

|  | Inch Abbey
|  |

|  |

Quoile Bridge

| Downpatrick

Loop Platform

|  | Downpatrick
King Magnus' Halt |  |

|  |

| Downpatrick and

County Down Railway

|  |

|  |
| Ballydugan Halt

(proposed)

|  |  | Downpatrick

Racecourse Platform
Tullymurry |  |

|  | Ballynoe
Ballykinlar Halt |  |

|  | Bright Halt
Dundrum |  |

|  | Killough

| Great Northern Railway

to Banbridge

|  | Coney Island
Castlewellan |  |

|  | Ardglass
|  |

|  |
|  |

|  | Newcastle
|  |  |  |  |  |

Grey indicate facilities that closed before the UTA takeover.

* Belfast (Queen's Quay) – Ballymacarrett Halt – Victoria Park – Sydenham – Tillysburn – Holywood – Marino – Cultra – Craigavad – Helen's Bay – Carnalea – Bangor West – Bangor
* Belfast (Queen's Quay) – Bloomfield – Neill's Hill – Knock – Dundonald – Comber
* Comber – Ballygowan – Shepherd's Bridge Halt – Saintfield – Ballynahinch Junction – Crossgar – King's Bridge Halt – Downpatrick
* Comber – Newtownards – Conlig – Ballygrainey – Millisle Road Halt – Donaghadee
* Comber – Ballygowan – Shepherd's Bridge Halt – Saintfield – Ballynahinch Junction – Creevyargon Halt – Ballynahinch
* Downpatrick – Downpatrick Loop Platform – Tullymurry – Ballykinlar Halt – Dundrum – Newcastle – Castlewellan
* Downpatrick – Downpatrick Loop Platform – Racecourse Platform – Ballynoe – Bright Halt – Killough – Coney Island Halt – Ardglass[4]

Helen's Bay railway station

## Steamships

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United Kingdom legislation

Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway Act 1881

Act of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Long title| An Act to authorise the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Company to lay down additional narrow gauge rails on their Railway; to raise additional Capital; to use steam vessels between Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor; and for other purposes.
Citation| 44 & 45 Vict. c. cc
Dates
Royal assent| 11 August 1881
Revised text of statute as amended

The Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. cc) authorised that company not only to have a railway built between Holywood and Bangor but also to run steamships "for the purpose of establishing an improved and efficient communication between Belfast, Holywood and Bangor".[5] The BHBR did not exercise this power, but several years after it had been taken over by the BCDR, the latter company started running scheduled passenger steamship services on the route.

The BCDR took advice from the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR),[5] which had been running passenger paddle steamers since 1891. For the 1893 season the G&SWR had ordered a new ship, PS Minerva (1893), to be built by J&G Thomson at Clydebank. The two railways then ordered from Thomson's two sister ships of a slightly revised design: PS Glen Rosa for the G&SWR and PS Slieve Donard for the BCDR. Thomson's launched Slieve Donard on 20 May 1893 and she entered service between Belfast's Donegall Quay and Bangor on 20 June.[5] She was named after Slieve Donard, the highest peak in the Mourne Mountains in County Down.[5]

In October 1893 the BCDR ordered a slightly larger paddle steamer, PS Slieve Bearnagh, named after Slieve Bearnagh, the second-highest peak in the Mourne Mountains.[5] She made her first voyage on Belfast Lough on 1 May 1894.[5] Donard and Bearnagh worked between Donegall Quay and Bangor, between them providing six sailings per day from Mondays to Saturdays and five on Sundays.[6] From Mondays to Saturdays one mid-afternoon sailing per day extended around the coast to Donaghadee.[6] On Saturday afternoons other sailings continued from Bangor across Belfast Lough to Larne.[6]

Later that summer a local steamer line, the New Belfast, Bangor and Larne Steamboat Company, went into liquidation and the BCDR bought two of its ships, PS Bangor Castle and PS Erin, from the receivers.[7] These ships were older and smaller than those that Thomson had supplied, and the BCDR seemed to have made little use of them.[7] Bangor Castle had been on charter to the Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company since 1888 and was scrapped in 1899.[8]

In 1899 the railway sold Slieve Donard to Alexander Campbell, co-founder of the P & A Campbell pleasure steamer company. Slieve Bearnagh remained with the BCDR, occasionally making excursions to Portaferry on the Ards Peninsula, Ardglass in south Down, and Larne and Portrush on the coast of County Antrim[5] in addition to her regular scheduled route on Belfast Lough.

At the end of the 1911 summer season the BCDR put Slieve Bearnagh up for sale and ordered a new paddle steamer, again slightly larger than her predecessors. A & J Inglis of Pointhouse, Glasgow launched the new ship, PS Erin's Isle, on 12 June 1912 and fitted her out in less than a month.[6] On 19 June 1912 the railway sold Slieve Bearnagh to D&J Nicol of Dundee for service on the east coast of Scotland.[5] Erin's Isle was in BCDR service from 12 July 1912 until her fourth summer season ended on 29 September 1915.[6] On 20 November 1915 the Admiralty requisitioned her for £400 per month to be a Royal Navy minesweeper.[6] On 7 May 1919 she was sunk by a mine,[9] for which the Admiralty paid £53,676 compensation.[6] However, the railway found that a new ship would cost £64,000 and decided not to return to owning steamships.[6]

## Ulster Transport Authority

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In 1946 the Northern Ireland Government announced that it would unite under a single authority all public transport that was wholly within Northern Ireland. The Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1948 created the Ulster Transport Authority which took over the BCDR on 1 October 1948 and the Northern Counties Committee on 1 April 1949.

On 15 January 1950 the UTA withdrew services on the former BCDR lines between Comber and Newcastle; Ballynahinch Junction and Ballynahinch; and Downpatrick and Ardglass.[10][11] The Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal had authorised these closures on 15 December 1949.[12]

The UTA withdrew services between Ballymacarrett Junction and Donaghadee on 22 April 1950.[11] The line between Castlewellan and Newcastle remained open until 1 May 1955,[13] served by Great Northern Railway Board trains to and from Banbridge. Once these two sections had been closed, the line between Belfast and Bangor was the only part of the former BCDR that remained open.

When the UTA took it over, the BCDR had 29 locomotives, 181 carriages and 25 other coaching vehicles,[clarification needed] 629 wagons mostly covered vans and wagons but also including some 6-wheeled fish vans, and 54 service vehicles.[3]

## Incidents and accidents

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In the Ballymacarrett rail crash of 1871, on 13 May, 2 died and 55 were injured when a passenger train ran into a derailed goods train at Ballymacarrett Junction. The goods train derailed when a drunken fireman drove the train into an unfinished turnout, fouling the line.

In the Ballymacarrett rail crash, on 10 January 1945, 22 passengers died and 27 were injured when a railmotor car ran into the rear of a conventional train stopped at a signal at Ballymacarrett Junction. The 7.40 a.m. rail motor Holywood to Belfast crashed into the rear of the 7.10 a.m. Bangor to Belfast train. The darkness and local fog were a factor but the driver of the rail motor was held to blame.[14] The Railway had to pay out some £80,000 in compensation, which crippled the company financially, leading to its early nationalisation in 1948.

## Downpatrick and County Down Railway

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The Downpatrick and County Down Railway (DCDR) operates the only Irish Gauge heritage railways in Northern Ireland on part of the former BCDR Belfast-Newcastle main line. It has fully restored and operates several miles of track, including the famous 'Downpatrick Loop', complete with original restored platform. The DCDR operates four railway stations on the line, one of which was the original BCDR Loop Platform. The railway holds a vast collection of BCDR rolling stock and museum artefacts, the majority of which are on display for the public to enjoy. The DCDR's logo is based on a monogram previously used by the BCDR.

## Preservation

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BCDR 4-4-2 tank engine No. 30 at the Ulster Transport Museum

Seven carriages that were once owned by the Belfast and County Down Railway have survived into preservation. Among them are three six-wheeled carriages built at Queen's Quay by the BCDR, one of the railway's three railmotors, an 1897 composite bogie coach, the BCDR's royal saloon No. 153, and a six-wheeled carriage built at Dundalk by the Great Northern Railway that was later purchased by the BCDR. All of these apart from six-wheeled third No. 18, built at Queen's Quay, are located at the Downpatrick and County Down Railway. So far, bogie coach No. 148 and ex-railmotor No. 72 have been fully restored, while No. 153 is part-way through overhaul. The other coaches owned by the railway are awaiting maintenance on site.[15]

In addition, one BCDR locomotive has been preserved at the Ulster Transport Museum: BCDR No. 30, which was built in 1901 by Beyer, Peacock & Company. The engine was renumbered 230 by the Ulster Transport Authority in 1951, and preserved by the company for static display. It is one of only 19 remaining 5' 3" gauge steam locomotives left in Ireland.[16]

## After closure

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Much of the line between Belfast and Newcastle was lifted in the early- to mid-1950s by the Ulster Transport Authority, shortly after the closure of the line. Some of the trackbed was purchased by farmers, while some was later used for walkways: for example, the stretch of former line North of Dundrum. As already mentioned, some of the line was relaid by the Downpatrick and County Down Railway.

The line from Belfast to Comber was converted in the 2000s to The Comber Greenway, a 7-mile (11 km) walk and cycleway.

## References

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1. ^ a b The Railway Year Book for 1926. London: The Railway Publishing Company Limited. 1926. pp. 229–231.
2. ^ 54°15′58″N 5°37′08″W﻿ / ﻿54.266°N 5.619°W﻿ / 54.266; -5.619
3. ^ a b c d "Belfast and County Down Railway". Irish Railwayana. Archived from the original on 15 August 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
4. ^ "The BCDR Company". Dundonald Railway Station, Then and Now…. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
5. ^ a b c d e f g h Patterson 1982, p. 13.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h Patterson 1982, p. 14.
7. ^ a b McCutcheon 1980, p. 149.
8. ^ "PS Bangor Castle (ex - Palmerston)". paddlesteamers.info. Tramscape. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
9. ^ "PS Erin's Isle". Clyde-built Ship Database. 2002–2012. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
10. ^ Pue 1975, p. 33.
11. ^ a b Pue 1975, p. 45
12. ^ "Belfast & County Down Railway". The Railway Magazine. 96 (586). London: Transport (1910) Ltd: 73. February 1950.
13. ^ Pue 1975, p. 51.
14. ^ Duncan, R. Dundas (2 June 1945). Belfast and County Down Railway (PDF). Belfast: Ministry of Commerce.
15. ^ "Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey Project". cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
16. ^ "Locomotives of the B.& C.D.R." countydownrailwaymuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2016.

## Sources and further reading

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* Coakham, Desmond (1998). The Belfast and County Down Railway of Ireland: An Irish Railway Pictorial. Leicester: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-076-1.
* IRRS (4 January 2016) [2001]. "Irish Railways: 1946 - 1996 ― NCC". Irish Railway Record Society. Belfast & County Down Railway. Archived from the original on 19 November 2017.*McCutcheon, W.A. (1980). The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. Belfast: HMSO. ISBN 0337081549.
* Patterson, Edward Mervyn (1982) [1958]. Belfast and County Down Railway. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-8306-X. OCLC 16552845.
* Pue, R.J.A. (1975). Twenty-five years gone. Millisle: The Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust. ISBN 0-905196-00-7.
* Pue, R.J.A. (2009). Large 4-4-2 Tanks of the Belfast & County Down Railway. Steam Locomotives of Irish Railways. Newtownards: The Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust. ISBN 978-0-905196-16-9.
* Pue, R.J.A. (2006). Standard 4-4-2 Tanks of the Belfast & County Down Railway. Steam Locomotives of Irish Railways. Newtownards: The Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust. ISBN 0-905196-06-6.

## External links

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* Downpatrick & County Down Railway
* "Belfast & Co. Down Railway". History of the Railways. Downpatrick & County Down Railway. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2005.
* Dundonald Railway Station Then & Now
* Belfast Queens Quay station signalbox

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*[DCDR]: Downpatrick and County Down Railway