MIDLAND RAILWAY

STABLES

Stables
Built 1907
Company Midland Railway NCC, LMS NCC, UTA
Preservation 1966

 

 

This building was erected to house five horses in stalls or loose boxes at the Larne end. Three jaunting cars (light two-wheeled carriages) were kept at the Belfast end. These carried visitors to and from the sea-front and the nearby Gobbins cliff path. There was a tack room in the middle which might, possibly, have included living accommodation for the attendant.

For the first 50 years of its RPSI ownership the stable was used as a store until re-imagined as an interpretation display on the development of Whitehead by the railway company. It also now houses an education room and a toilet block.


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