Ballycastle Railway

[1] Ballycastle Railway opened in October 1880 and ran 17 miles (27 km) from Ballymoney, on the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR), later Northern Counties Committee (NCC), main line to Derry, to Ballycastle.

[1] Services mainly consisted of three return journeys each day, taking between 50 minutes and an hour.

[1] Under the terms of the Transport Act 1947 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the NCC's parent company, was nationalised by the British Government on 1 January 1948.

This was only a temporary measure and in 1949 the NCC was transferred to the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) – owned by the Government of Northern Ireland.

The Ballycastle Railway was one of the casualties; the UTA closed the line to all services on 3 July 1950.