Would The Last Person To Leave Ireland…

please turn off the lights…

This was where the railway line used to connect with the Carlisle Pier, so you could go straight from the train to the boat to Holyhead.

When they electrified the line for DARTs, they couldn't raise all the bridges in Done Leering, so they dropped the track instead - which is why it floods all the time! And it was cheaper to make people walk the last half mile on Irish soil than to lower the track to the boat…