Largest Station . Heysham Harbour . The area of the harbour, works and proposed dock is 350 acres. There is a depth of 17 feet in the harbour, and 40 feet outside the entrance at low water ordinary spring tides. Landing facilities have been provided at all states of the tide, with a quay length of 3,000 feet.
Passenger trains arrive and depart alongside the steamers, and luggage is transferred free.
Goods are transferred direct between the vessels and the goods sheds or wagons. Horses, cattle and other live stock are landed on sloping ways and without slings. The harbour is available for coastwise steamers, fishing smacks and trawlers, and affords every facility for the reception, forwarding and quick transit of fish and other traffic. The Railway Year Book lists 11 steamers as being run by the Midland, plying either between Heysham and Belfast, or Tilbury and Gravesend. Longest Tunnels .