Capecastle
Capecastle or Cape Castle is a small village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, between Armoy and Ballycastle. It is part of the Causeway Coast and Glens district.
Transport
[edit]Capecastle railway station opened on 1 February 1882, closed for goods traffic in 1927, and finally closed altogether on 3 July 1950.[1] It was on the Ballycastle Railway, a narrow gauge railway which ran for 17 miles connecting Ballycastle to Ballymoney, on the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR), later Northern Counties Committee (NCC), main line to Derry.[2]
Capecastle is served by buses running along the A44 Magheramore Road, with stops at the junction with Islandarragh Road.
References
[edit]- ^ "Capecastle station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
- ^ Baker, Michael HC (1999). Irish Narrow Gauge Railways. A View from the Past. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2680-7.
See also
[edit]55°09′57″N 6°17′44″W / 55.16583°N 6.29556°W
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