Railway Bridge, Whitehouse Park, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim

Double-arched stone bridge, erected c.1850, set on a north/south axis, carrying the Belfast to Carrickfergus railway line over the Whitehouse Park Road (north) and the Whitehouse River (south) (Glas-na-Cradan). Coursed squared and tooled basalt walls rising to tooled sandstone ashlar coping and steel railings over. Curved embankment walls to either end descending at a 45 degree angle with sandstone coping to the slopes. Pair of round arches with rock-faced sandstone ashlar voussoirs having tooled margins, terminating to an impost course (impost course to north obscured by footpath). Rough-hewn coursed sandstone to both archivolts. Bitmac road to north arch with a bitmac footpath and concrete kerbing to the north side. Walling: Squared basalt rubble Setting Off the Shore Road near to the coast in a suburban area; the roadway through the north arch follows the shoreline of the estuary to the west.