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Balla Railway Station

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Balla Railway Station
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Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, opened 1862; extant 1894, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1963. Dismantled, 1989. Now in ruins. Overhanging pitched slate roof now missing with tuck pointed drag edged rock faced cut-limestone chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central window openings with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone surrounds with no fittings surviving. Pseudo three centre-headed flanking door openings with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

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