Publisher's Synopsis
This is a new edition of Dr EM Patterson's book "The Ballymena Lines", originally published in 1968 and is a companion volume to "The Ballycastle Railway" by the same author, reissued in 2006. County Antrim was the cradle of the Irish narrow gauge railways and this updated edition covers the Ballymena, Cushendal and Red Bay Railway, the Ballymena and Larne Railway, the NCC and the various industrial lines that operated, such as the Glenariff Railway, the Carnlough Mineral Railway and the British Aluminium lines at Larne; & number 8232; & number 8232; and, A detailed itinerary taking you over what remains of the railway in 2007 provides a useful and interesting addition to the 1968 book. This title comes with additional material by Norman Johnston.
