Those of you who 'suspect' Northern Ireland are right ... and those who say 'private feel' are closer than you thinks.
It's at Whitehead on the Belfast to Larne line. And the siding off to the right is to the presevation society's depot .. they run occasional specials from here on the mainline.
I had a look at the picture and got the odd feel too ...
Slightly different track scale / gauge
Rocks on platform ramp
Very busy foot crfossing over running lines
Next station up the line is "Ballycarry"
It has an hourly service through the day, with this peak hour train dropping off 4 people from Belfast. There's very little within half a mile, but an excellent service and a recently upgraded station. Ballycarry village is just over that half mile, and up a steep hill.
I can't but help draing comparisons and thinking that of a certain station in
FGW▸ land that serves not a handful of houses but a whole town, and yet has just 2 trains each way daily. I get the feeling from looking round over here (I'm writing from Northern Ireland) that there's a big outflow of tax money from the South West of England to these parts ...
