GRAND CENTRAL STATION in BELFAST CITY * 4K (60fps)

Описание: Belfast Grand Central Station 7 FEBRUARY 2025

BELFAST GRAND CENTRAL STATION

Belfast Grand Central station (originally the Belfast Transport Hub is a railway and bus station in the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It has replaced Great Victoria Street railway station and the Europa Buscentre. It is built next to its predecessors, in a new neighbourhood called Weaver's Cross. The first bus service, to Dublin, departed from the station on 8 September 2024, and the first rail service, also to Dublin, departed from the station on 13 October 2024.

The first railway station in Ulster was opened on the site of the former Great Victoria Street station in 1839 on the Ulster Railway. It became the northern terminus of the GNR's non-stop Dublin–Belfast express in 1947, and in 1962, platform 5 was removed to allow construction of a bus station providing a truly integrated bus-rail station for the first time in Belfast's history. Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) closed the railway part of the station altogether in 1976 and the original buildings were demolished, being replaced by the Europa Hotel and Great Northern Mall. Railway services resumed, however, in 1995 with the opening of a rebuilt Great Victoria Street station, integrated with the Europa Buscentre.

The station is located on a 8-hectare (860,000 sq ft) site owned by The Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (trading as Translink) between the former Europa Buscentre and Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station, both of which it replaces. The station's capacity is designed to cater for twenty million passenger journeys annually, more than the twelve million combined capacity of the pre-existing bus and railway station. In addition to rail and bus improvements, the station also has cycle and taxi provision for enhanced connectivity, with 300 cycle parking spaces. It is said to be the "largest integrated transport facility on the island of Ireland". During construction the transport hub was described as one of the Northern Ireland Executive's "flagship projects".

TRAIN STATION
The station has eight terminus platforms (double that of Great Victoria Street), composed of four island platforms with two faces each. Platforms 1–4 are 154 m long (accommodating up to a six car train), while platforms 5–8 are 224 m long (up to 9 cars). Trains to Derry, Larne and Bangor usually use 1–4 and trains to Dublin and Portadown/Newry typically use 5–8. Portadown to Bangor traffic is divided into two separate lines, whereas at the former station it had operated as a single line. The Enterprise express service to Dublin was moved from Lanyon Place as part of the project.

BUS STATION
The bus station features 26 stands, eight more than the previous Europa Bus Centre. Seating is available throughout, with priority seating at select stands. The station also offers a range of amenities, including ATMs, vending machines, automated ticket machines, a help desk, a water refill station, and a sensory pod. There are accessible male and female restrooms, as well as Changing Places facilities.

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