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Excellent shot!!

Well. I can't find anything useful, so ... Buenas fotos antiguas

I think this may be the house marked as Bayhead on the PRONI 6" unlinkable map of c.1900. If so, it is No Longer Standing. It would have been here: Streetview

Here's an earlier photograph. Note same building with the two high gable windows and large door to farm building and the tiny window over what's a new door in farm building. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000039888 15 Bayhead Rd maps.app.goo.gl/BGmAESexXJo22jzRA

At last, a clock! ... But look - no hands!

Voting for 1893 ... "The station, which is 67¾ miles from Belfast, was opened on 4 December 1855.[1] To accommodate excursion and holiday traffic, extensive reconstruction by the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, under the direction of its engineer and architect Berkeley Deane Wise, was completed in 1893. ... ..." From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrush_railway_station

Same day, 'cos of the clock work - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333806

Portrush station was reconstructed, as seen here, in 1893 by the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. It was the starting point of the Giant’s Causeway Electric Railway or tramway, seen in foreground. Probably the world’s first long distance electric tramway which ran to Bushmills station.

Building on the right was the Railway Station Café. Mr French visited for a sticky bun - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000327510

aha ! a familiar stomping ground good to see it in all its older BW glory

Unusual metal guard rail at bottom - is it something to do with a tramway? Sometimes Flickr is amazing - And in May 2017

Aha! The tram - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dunluce_Castle_%26_Giant%27s_C... From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway_Tramway Edit - "...electric power ... ... was originally fed to the trains via an elevated third rail which ran alongside the line ... " Edit 2 - "The section from Bushmills to the Giant's Causeway opened on 1 July 1887. In 1895 a cyclist died of electric shock after coming into contact with the conductor rail. At the subsequent inquiry it was revealed that the line voltage varied from an average of 290 V up to 360 V, and the company agreed to a temporary reduction in the voltage, which limited the number of services that could be electrically worked. The third rail was replaced by overhead electric wire using side poles from 26 July 1899, apparently initially at 250 V."

Help! - I can't find the original of the tram version of this pic (see wiki link above) in the NLI catalogue .... please!

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