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WHITEHEAD EXCURSION STATION BUILDING

Station Building
Built 2012-2013
Company RPSI

 

 

Although completed in 2013 and opened in 2014, the exterior of the building is in a traditional Victorian style and is based on Whiteabbey station.

While the exterior follows Lanyon’s design, the interior is purpose designed with modern facilities for the public - toilets, shop, Platform3 Café. However, there is some elements of period style to compliment the exterior. Reclaimed fixtures were acquired, the most significant of which was the counter and mirrored wall upstand which came from a hardware store and coal merchants in Cookstown dating from the 1890s.

The door from the platform into the café is in the position of the entrance to the general waiting room at Whiteabbey. The 2 storey part (our offices) was where the station master lived!

The architect was Society member Tony Dean.

The original proposed design.
The station elevations.
Whiteabbey station, on which the new building was modelled.
11/5/2002: Seen at Athlone is Tony Dean, architect for the Whitehead Excursion station building. (A. Williamson)
22/9/2012: Work on the station foundations has started on the platform. (P. McCann)
17/10/2017: Invited guests attend a ceremony at Whitehead to mark the official laying of the first brick. The brick was laid by Vera McWilliam of major sponsor GROW. (P. McCann)
17/10/2017: It was a very wet day, but the foundations and steelwork of the station can still be clearly seen. (P. McCann)
1/11/2012: By this date the building work was proceeding at a rapid pace. (M. Walsh)
6/1/2013: The new year saw the building taking a definite shape.
19/2/2013: The completed front elevation. (A. Lohoff)
20/2/2013: The rear of the station. (J. Glendinning)
20/2/2013: The Belfast end. (J. Glendinning)
20/2/2013: The 2-storey Larne side of the station. (J. Glendinning)
1/4/2013: The Easter Eggspress brings public trains to the as yet unopened station. (P. McCann)
6/4/2013: The building is complete but the canopy remains to be finished, as No.85 poses alongside. (A. Lohoff)
6/6/2013: The newly-completed station.
6/6/2013: The canopy and platform area has been completed.
6/6/2013: An interior view, looking towards Belfast.
6/6/2013: Looking towards the platform and Larne end.
6/4/2019: It's a train rides day for No.3BG's centenary, and the building is festooned and busy. (C.P. Friel)

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