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====Hotels==== Hotel accommodation in nineteenth century Ireland was not of a generally high standard. While this should have been of concern to the railway companies, few took a direct interest in the matter. The {{abbr|BNCR|Belfast and Northern Counties Railway}} and the [[Great Southern & Western Railway]] were exceptions. The {{abbr|BNCR|Belfast and Northern Counties Railway}} purchased a share in the lease of the long-standing and well thought of Antrim Arms hotel at [[Portrush]] and in 1883 formed a separate company to manage what was renamed the Northern Counties Hotel. Situated on an elevated site, the hotel overlooked the Atlantic Ocean at front and back. With more than one hundred rooms, it was intended to accommodate high-class tourists visiting the [[Giant's Causeway]]. The hotel was enlarged and improved in 1884 and 1892 and in 1902 the {{abbr|BNCR|Belfast and Northern Counties Railway}} purchased the freehold outright from the [[William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim|Earl of Antrim]]. A new hotel was built in Belfast as part of the York Road station reconstruction with the intention of capturing trade from long-distance travellers as it was convenient to the cross-channel steamer berths. Designed by Berkeley Dean Wise and directly connected to the station, the unimaginatively named Station Hotel opened in 1898. In addition to the railway-operated hotels, arrangements were made during the 1890s with the independent Olderfleet hotel in Larne and the Antrim Arms and Marine hotels in [[Ballycastle, County Antrim|Ballycastle]] for the issue of combined railway and hotel tickets.
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