Carrickfergus Train Station

Trains come, trains go.
Nice as town train stations go, airy and bright retaining a lot of the original look (I would guess as I wasn’t around when it was built)
It has a shop open limited hours and two different platforms, so make sure your on the right one.

A little train station with indoor seats and a little shop. There are also toilets although the door on the female one wasn’t working when I was there.
An old fashioned little station, but has everything you need to wait for your train!

If I am ever using our wonderful train service (and I use that term very loosely!) This would be the station I would normally get on at.
It’s not the closest station to me, but it’s the most comfortable, where I get to sit indoors, instead of freezing at a halt.
The view of the outside of the station has remained unchanged for over 100 years. There is an old photograph of the station taken in the 1800’s, you can see people in the picture in Victorian type clothing, but the station looks exactly the same as it does today.
The inside, thankfully, has changed! In the early 2000’s, a lot of money was spent giving it a spruce up, and making the seating area enclosed from the platform, making it a lot more warm and comfortable.
There are restroom facilities, and a little shop and bookstore, which is really a newsagents, but they do some hot food that you can heat up in the microwave provided.
They also have a book case, so if you have a long wait, you can take one of the books free of charge to while away the time.