A free day out

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1. Morning · 9am–12

   

   The story · Warrenpoint

   How the train made Warrenpoint a holiday town

   From 1849 until 1965 the railway ran right into Warrenpoint, and it changed the place. The railway company didn't just bring people here: it put money into hotels and entertainment so they'd stay. That's a big part of why Warrenpoint became somewhere you came for your holidays, not somewhere you passed through.

   Stroll the seafront and picture the trains unloading holidaymakers a few streets away.

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2. Lunch · 12–2pm

   The story · Warrenpoint

   The grand hotel that went bust in a year

   The Beach Hotel opened in March 1885 with fifty rooms, a billiard room, a smoking room, and baths with hot, cold, fresh and salt water. It was a big bet, and it didn't pay off for its owner, Henry Stanley, who went bankrupt the following year. The Great Northern Railway Company bought it, made it bigger and folded it into their seaside holiday business.

   Walk the front and look up at the old hotel buildings that line it.

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   Then: a cheap bite nearby

   

   Leafy Greens & Co.

   In Warrenpoint

   Vegetarian café and deli on Church St, Warrenpoint.

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3. Afternoon · 2–6pm

   The story · Warrenpoint

   When Warrenpoint had seven hotels

   By the late 1800s Warrenpoint had seven hotels, and Rostrevor had three more. These weren't sleepy villages that happened to be pretty. They were busy holiday towns, with real businesses built around looking after visitors.

   Count the grand old frontages along the seafront as you walk.

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