{"id":1686,"date":"2025-02-24T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:57:14","slug":"newtownards-to-bangor-greenway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/newtownards-to-bangor-greenway\/","title":{"rendered":"Newtownards to Bangor Greenway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another day, another greenway. This time in Co. Down, from Newtownards to Bangor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first the headline on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidermedia.com\/news\/ireland\/construction-starts-on-5.6m-newtownards-to-bangor-greenway-will-utilise-former-railway-track\">insidermedia.com<\/a> had me confused, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Construction starts on \u00a35.6m Newtownards to Bangor Greenway &#8211; will utilise former railway track&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was there a heretofore unrecorded railway line from Newtownards to Bangor? A quick look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialheritageireland.info\/Gazetteer\/Maps\/75000%20Belfast.html\">own gazetteer<\/a> enlightened me. The plan is to use the trackbed from Newtownards to Conlig (also known as Whitespots) and head across country from there to Bangor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another greenway. This time in Co. Down, from Newtownards to Bangor. At first the headline on insidermedia.com had me confused, stating: &#8220;Construction starts on \u00a35.6m Newtownards to Bangor Greenway &#8211; will utilise former railway track&#8221;. Was there a heretofore unrecorded railway line from Newtownards to Bangor? A quick look at my own gazetteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}