Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station

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Belfast Great Victoria Street
Location
Place	Great Victoria Street, Belfast
Local authority	Belfast City Council
Operations
Managed by	Translink
Platforms in use	4
History
1839 1976 1995	Original station opened Closed Current station opened
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Belfast Great Victoria Street serves the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The station is the second major station in the city, after Belfast Central.

Ironically, it is in a more central position than Belfast Central. The Europa Hotel, Grand Opera House and Crown Liquor Saloon are all nearby.

The first station, named Belfast, was opened on 12 August 1839. Victoria Street was added to its name in 1852, and finally the Great prefix was added in 1856. This was the first railway terminus to be built in Belfast and it became an important station for the city. A new station building was constructed in 1848. The station then served as the Belfast terminus of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), which included later acting as the Belfast terminus of the Enterprise.

This lasted until 1976 when the station was closed as part of a scheme to connect the three mainline railways running into Belfast, and all services were moved to Belfast Central, which opened that same year. The Great Northern Tower now stands on the site of the old station building. The current Great Victoria Street Station is located just yards away from the previous one. It was opened in September 1995.^[1]

Great Victoria Street is at the nexus of the suburban rail network in Northern Ireland, with the lines to Newry, Derry, Bangor and Larne all terminating there.

• Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station is at coordinates 54°35′39″N 5°56′10″W / 54.59418, -5.9362 (Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station)Coordinates: 54°35′39″N 5°56′10″W / 54.59418, -5.9362 (Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station)

Preceding station	Northern Ireland Railways			Following station
Adelaide		Northern Ireland Railways Newry-Bangor		City Hospital
Terminus		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Derry		City Hospital
		Northern Ireland Railways Belfast-Larne

[edit] References

1. ^ Great Victoria Street Station1. BBC NI. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.

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