SNEAK PREVIEW of the Brand New Grand Central Station Transport Hub Belfast

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  • @hughofIreland
    @hughofIreland 25 днів тому +1

    I got deluged by videos on this topic last month. I’m glad this one appeared tonight.
    I see a consistent theme is criticism of the £340 million price tag. I think it’s a bargain for what Belfast is getting. It should encourage funding for capital investment in the region.

  • @karenmccartney9514
    @karenmccartney9514 3 місяці тому

    Wonderful. For so many years we have been pitied or sneered at and now we have a state-of-the-art transport hub that we can be delighted with. Finally, the modern world has arrived in Belfast. I'm so proud of my home city

  • @darrenturner3094
    @darrenturner3094 3 місяці тому +24

    As a Dubliner this is so wonderful to see - so happy and proud of Belfast for making this happen. I hope it encourages our gov down here to improve our rubbish rail infrastructure!

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +2

      Thank you! Yes I Hope so too, would be amazing to see an all island infrastructure change and expansion of the rail network

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому +9

      Dublin's rail infrastructure is superior to that of Belfast. For example, unlike Dublin, Belfast has no electrified suburban railways at all and no tram network!! Heuston was hugely and beautifully enlarged in the last few decades both in terms of platform capacity (now 8 for rail and 3 for tram) and concourse size. Only now does Belfast have major station facilities for rail passengers that Dublin had twenty years ago or more. To me it's a joy to see Belfast raising its standards in regard to rail transport with the new station. I hope this trend continues.

    • @TheCuriousOranj
      @TheCuriousOranj 3 місяці тому +1

      @@odunadhaigh Connolly and Heuston are absolutely woeful, dirty and poorly kept with extremely limited food/retail facilities compared to train stations in any other major world city. Describing the poxy uncovered, drug addict gathering site of a Luas stop as platforms comparable with proper stations is extremely generous or deluded too.

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@TheCuriousOranj I quote "absolutely woeful, dirty and poorly kept with extremely limited food/retail facilities" Not my experience of Heuston. I quote "other major world city". I don't think Dublin would claim to be a "major world city". Anyway, if you think that Belfast Grand Central Station will be so much wonderfully better than Heuston Station after the first week or so, I think you're deluding yourself. Both will be very good stations for rather small cities by world standards.

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому +3

      @@TheCuriousOranj Belfast Grand Central Station won't even have a tram stop, poxy or otherwise, beacause Belfast doesn't have a tram network!! The platform height for trams at Heuston is perfectly suitable. There is a difference between platform heights for trains and for trams.

  • @-DC-
    @-DC- 3 місяці тому +4

    Incredible seeing Belfast coming back to life over the past 30 years ❤

    • @mr90s48
      @mr90s48 3 місяці тому +1

      The place is a dump the state of royal avenue is embarrassing shitty not a city

  • @terryosullivan2620
    @terryosullivan2620 3 місяці тому +3

    Hi Thanks for sharing it looks great. Look forward to visiting on the entetprise.

  • @billybraithwaite67
    @billybraithwaite67 3 місяці тому +6

    Very impressive, fantastic for Belfast & the travelling public.
    A direct rail link to the International Airport would be even more impressive…we can but wish.

  • @kangamangus95
    @kangamangus95 3 місяці тому +2

    It's lovely to see this and the reference to the Island of Ireland Infrastructure future.

  • @danielpeti3885
    @danielpeti3885 3 місяці тому +1

    Looks beautiful. Thanks for the upload.

  • @seanocobhthaigh7096
    @seanocobhthaigh7096 3 місяці тому +2

    Will the machines have irish language facilities? Stáisiún iontach é sin!

  • @paulbelfastlimerick
    @paulbelfastlimerick 3 місяці тому

    Well wear and long may GC prosper.
    We got a new 20-bay bus station integrated into Colbert rail station early this year and it is probably the best interchange facility in RoI at present but fair play to Translink for being innovative as a former Four Winds resident, I am delighted for Belfast!

  • @michaelquigley9030
    @michaelquigley9030 3 місяці тому

    Epic! Thanks for sharing 🎉

  • @Shorty0202
    @Shorty0202 3 місяці тому +5

    Bit of history documented here. Maybe 100 years from now, people from Belfast will watch this video and see what the train station they’ve known and used throughout their lives was like when it was brand new

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      @@Shorty0202 I hope so, was thinking that myself about when I look at old videos, someone else went out to film that so maybe someone will share this in 100 years time on whatever platform is around haha

    • @johnfromireland7551
      @johnfromireland7551 2 дні тому +1

      Will UA-cam and all its videos still be here? Will the internet continue to exist? Interesting questions!!

  • @markjamison9765
    @markjamison9765 3 місяці тому

    a link to the international airport would be great

  • @ath3263
    @ath3263 3 місяці тому +2

    Will this new station have been fitted out of trains from Larne ,Belfast, Dublin to Cork being electrified power instead of diesel

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      Couldn't tell you, they weren't really answering too many questions about things like this. You'd hope so though!

  • @colinjcjohnston
    @colinjcjohnston 3 місяці тому +1

    Very happy to see this in Belfast

  • @Jimbles
    @Jimbles 3 місяці тому

    Looks great! London Bridge station vibes

  • @jimgallaher458
    @jimgallaher458 3 місяці тому +3

    Translink really need to sort out a proper transport link to the "International" airport. Unless you're driving, try getting home from the airport if your flight lands after 11pm . For a country trying hard to be a tourist destination this is a shocking state of affairs.

    • @E9JMX
      @E9JMX 3 місяці тому

      You can thank the land owners around Aldergrove, who won't sell up to allow for a extension of the railway line, to come into the International.

    • @jonathanmckillen8487
      @jonathanmckillen8487 3 місяці тому

      ​@@E9JMXsure the mouthballed lisburn to antrim line runs along the perimeter fence at the end of the runway. What land owners have been approached ?

    • @cehaem2
      @cehaem2 3 місяці тому

      Most flights arriving after midnight are charter flights or flights FROM tourist destinations anyway...

    • @malcolmcampbell1968
      @malcolmcampbell1968 3 місяці тому

      plenty of taxis and buses run through the night !! stop making out like you would be stranded.

    • @jonathanmckillen8487
      @jonathanmckillen8487 3 місяці тому

      @@jimgallaher458 the last bus from international is at 2330 and starts again at 0150 so your hardly stranded

  • @carero22
    @carero22 3 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for the video, can't wait to see it myself!

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      Absolute pleasure to share, thanks for watching!

  • @johnnykerr70
    @johnnykerr70 3 місяці тому +1

    So is the only way on foot from city centre into it via Glengall Street where you walked up first or can you still cut through the old gt Vic mall? Ps loved the video it's the first I've seen that properly showcases how good it's going to be

    • @johnfromireland7551
      @johnfromireland7551 2 дні тому

      I think the plan is to keep that mall and be able to walk on through to the bus and train stations opening up a huge new Quarter area for not only travellers but the city centre.

  • @johnfox2113
    @johnfox2113 3 місяці тому +2

    No trains all summer on Portadown line. The bus substitute takes twice as long. Its been a real pain. Now translink are saying Christmas before trains are running from here. Must be some way to run trains to another Belfast station till this is open? Really inconvenient translink

    • @stephencampbell4805
      @stephencampbell4805 3 місяці тому +1

      Translink have never cared about passengers. Anytime things go wrong it's always someone else's fault. Joke of a company. Wouldn't trust them to run a bath nevermind a travel network.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 3 місяці тому +1

      You’d think they could run shuttle trains to a station one up from here and then a short shuttle bus.

  • @darrenaitcheson795
    @darrenaitcheson795 3 місяці тому

    Translink get a lot of stick (including from myself when I was a commuter in a past life), but fair to play to them on this; it's about time Belfast had a decent station. Shame the Glider stops nowhere near it though. And I would've thought that roof exterior would have been a prime candidate for solar panels?

  • @padraigcollins6525
    @padraigcollins6525 3 місяці тому +2

    Great video. I haven't been to Belfast since 1999 and I now live on the other side of the world, but it's good to know if I ever get back there will be a great train station in the city centre.

  • @Northstander
    @Northstander 3 місяці тому +3

    This is impressive, a lot of construction projects have delivered far less for much more in terms of cost. It is good to see that it has been designed and delivered with future proofing as a consideration, which will be of benefit, if (or when) the level of rail traffic increases with future expansion plans...hopefully this will encourage more people to travel by rail, which is far more sustainable than many other forms of transport, delivering a new link to the airport from the city should be an absolute no brainer.

  • @fjkelley4774
    @fjkelley4774 3 місяці тому +1

    Very happy to see this. Rail on the island should be a priority of both North and South. Am I mistaken or are all the tracks in the station stub lines? No pass-through? (just a comment as most new stations I see have both. though not always)

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      Does that mean they have a dead end at the station? It so then yes, you get a greater picture of the trains at the end. Also agree re all island rail

  • @malcolmcampbell1968
    @malcolmcampbell1968 3 місяці тому

    i wonder does it have a taxi rank in there.

    • @johnfromireland7551
      @johnfromireland7551 2 дні тому

      Good question. Will they put it up against the Grand Opera House? Currently that area is used by private coach companies.

  • @thehealthyfamilyfoodie9128
    @thehealthyfamilyfoodie9128 3 місяці тому +1

    Looks fab!

  • @radomiriz
    @radomiriz 3 місяці тому +1

    It looks massive. I can't imagine it being so busy that it will be stuffed. Good thing though.

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      Exactly! Old station was always rammed, you have space to breathe in this one. usually people want light and space for public spaces and this has both in surplus

  • @andrewmorrison5701
    @andrewmorrison5701 3 місяці тому +2

    As a Sydneysider of Belfast parentage, and having lived in Belfast this is amazing to see. I am so impressed. Here in Sydney the new Metro has just opened and it’s ****ing amazing. So thrilled to see Belfast getting some great new infrastructure too

    • @andrewmorrison5701
      @andrewmorrison5701 3 місяці тому

      ua-cam.com/video/nniSbojfi3I/v-deo.htmlsi=sqsKiV_kG4cgZ_t-

    • @johnfromireland7551
      @johnfromireland7551 2 дні тому

      Come back to Belfast, if you can. You will be made very welcome! Travel down South using the station, too.

  • @dooley5977
    @dooley5977 3 місяці тому +1

    Heading down on Sunday morning, Yeeeoooo!

  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad 3 місяці тому +3

    Am I the only one that thinks that surely Belfast can come up with a better local name than Grand Central - it’s like ‘let’s nick New York City’s name to make us look big’ .

    • @lordsummerisle3139
      @lordsummerisle3139 3 місяці тому

      Totally agree. Pathetic lack of imagination and originality

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      @@xr6lad Grand Central was a name long before New York, it was always a generic name for the largest stations in Victorian times especially. There is also a historical link to the city as the owner of the original Grand Central Hotel on Royal Avenue wanted to originally create the Grand Central Station in the same spot in the 1800s so there's a historical link there

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      @@lordsummerisle3139 check out my other comment, it's actually a link to history

  • @johnfromireland7551
    @johnfromireland7551 2 дні тому

    Looks like an airport terminal without the planes! Sandy Row locals should be very grateful of the investment put in right on their door step. But, no, just like the way they , also, refused to have the NIHE rebuild The Village they want to keep the status quo. Wonder why? They are blinded by their hate.

  • @gerarddeegan1164
    @gerarddeegan1164 3 місяці тому

    This is one station where dublin has many railway stations like heuston station connolly station pearse street station tara street station serving in dublin a lot more choice with commuter rail and dart and luas services

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      It's also twice the size. We have a few stations including this, Botanic, Yorkgate (newly redeveloped), Lanyon Place (newly redeveloped) so I think we're ok for now. This is also the biggest on the island now too which is great for the city

    • @gerarddeegan1164
      @gerarddeegan1164 3 місяці тому

      @@DocumentBelfast why who said its the biggest on the island of ireland and its in such a small city

    • @gerarddeegan1164
      @gerarddeegan1164 3 місяці тому +1

      @@DocumentBelfast a lot more people use the dublin train stations hub then anywhere in ireland becsuse the population is much much greather than northern ireland dublin covers trains to cork limerick sligo galway and all over the republic with a lot more people using train and bus routes where as the glass box built in belfast deals with far less in such a small city like belfast where as aswell dublin county population is well over a million people and the republics is five and a half million just so the republics train and bus stations are well far busier

    • @gerarddeegan1164
      @gerarddeegan1164 3 місяці тому +1

      @@DocumentBelfast plus dublin will be getting a world class underground metro system

    • @thomasburke2683
      @thomasburke2683 3 місяці тому

      ​@@gerarddeegan1164 what they mean is that it's the biggest transport hub on the island, a combined bus and rail station.
      It's equivalent to Dublin having busaras and Heuston station on one site, under one roof.

  • @eddieportmore1
    @eddieportmore1 3 місяці тому

    I am thinking ,is this going to be big enough .For the crowds of people ,waiting for trains .It looks not .

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      Seriously?haha, it's huge, will be more than fit for purpose definitely

    • @eddieportmore1
      @eddieportmore1 3 місяці тому

      @@DocumentBelfast I have seen .Frist hand ,Connolly station. Dublin.And the size ,of the crowds ,waiting ,for the trains.I think the wating areas ,need to be much more, in size.And to have more ,aeras for seating .

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      @@eddieportmore1 Remember in this video I do mention it's not fully completed yet so assume more will be added

  • @gerarddeegan1164
    @gerarddeegan1164 3 місяці тому

    Why is it shapped like a old factory building

  • @esioanniannaho5939
    @esioanniannaho5939 3 місяці тому

    Too much jerking around. Wish you gave a bot of orientation. Like view of old side and Europa entrance on the north side then a view of the south side.

    • @esioanniannaho5939
      @esioanniannaho5939 3 місяці тому

      Good that they will convert most of the surrounding area into pedestrian only areas.

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      We weren't allowed outside of the building due to construction ongoing, it's all I could show

  • @Knowledgejoy-mm2jt
    @Knowledgejoy-mm2jt 3 місяці тому

    One hundred and forty million pounds over budget and they have forgotten to lay tracks for the trains. Incredible, where else could this be true only in Northern Ireland...

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  2 місяці тому

      They didn't forget, there was a transition period between the old and new stations as they had to wait for the old one to be closed to begin work on that section of track. Then after completion it was held up by bureaucracy in the safety checks. I agree about budget, well over and far too much

  • @bubolladalawun
    @bubolladalawun 3 місяці тому +1

    About bleedin time

  • @gerryguinn3175
    @gerryguinn3175 3 місяці тому +1

    Normaly get on york road used to be one guy Michel now ther is about 20 workers no wonder trsnslink is skint best job in the world money for old rope 😢😢😢

  • @MD-ty1kc
    @MD-ty1kc 3 місяці тому +4

    Loads of balls worst transport system in Europe ffs trains and buses 😮

  • @marko10283
    @marko10283 3 місяці тому +8

    Just another glass Box......

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      Architecture all subjective, plus as I mentioned it's not finished yet so a bit of imagination needed of course

    • @jM-ez7fq
      @jM-ez7fq 3 місяці тому

      World class compared to Dublin shithole 3rd world station's 😅

  • @minecraftbuilds1960
    @minecraftbuilds1960 3 місяці тому

    Absolutely amazing piece of infrastructure, people from NI complain alot but this is absolutely amazing for Belfast... Hopefully itll enable new routes to be constructed in the future 😉

  • @magzb2642
    @magzb2642 3 місяці тому +1

    Why so vast..Looks an unnecessary height, like new hospitals..Architecture is usually male lead and they seem to think huge is better.

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      @@magzb2642 people psychologically like a lot of light and open space so I assume to do with that, I don't understand why it would be an issue anyway, surely more space the better

  • @breenirwin2356
    @breenirwin2356 3 місяці тому +1

    Miles ahead of Dublin it really is a Belfast as a Dub myself I much prefer to have a drink in Belfast then Dublin nowadays

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому

      It is not miles ahead of Dublin. Dublin Heuston was beautifully enlarged within the last several decades from 5 rail platforms to 8, and acquired a magnificent enlarged concourse. Dublin Heuston is a beautiful station. It's only now that Belfast is acquiring something approximating to Dublin in regard to major rail stations, and yet still Belfast has no electrified suburban rail services.

    • @breenirwin2356
      @breenirwin2356 3 місяці тому

      @@odunadhaigh
      Have you been to Dublin of yet lad I know every place has its own problems but I know which city Id rather be in at current time.

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому

      ​@@breenirwin2356 The discussion was on major railway stations and I do not agree that Belfast Grand Central Station is miles ahead of Dublin Heuston Station which was hugely and magnificently extended in the last 30 years both in terms of platform capacity, concourse size and amenities. It is only now that the quality of Belfast's stations is catching up with Dublin.

    • @breenirwin2356
      @breenirwin2356 3 місяці тому +1

      @@odunadhaigh Dublin has stagnated

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому

      @@breenirwin2356 It was Belfast rail stations (both Lanyon Place and Great Victoria Street) which were stagnant and dreadfully small, when huge strides were made with each of Heuston Station, Connolly Station and Pearse Station. It's only now that Belfast is getting a decent city centre station.

  • @paulohare9976
    @paulohare9976 3 місяці тому +9

    340 million pound transport hub that can't get people home after 11pm, some suits somewhere making profit would love more details who invested, who's making profit etc with your documentary of Belfast please instead of this nonsense

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому +1

      People can't CURRENTLY get home after 11pm, you need to see this hub as a starting point for future changes. Think positively, only place in the world who would see a brand spanking new transport hub as a negative haha. See it as future proofing for expansion and change

  • @kevinreilly9482
    @kevinreilly9482 3 місяці тому

    Railway station with no trains

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      I think you underestimate how complex relocating railway lines is. Opening in mid October hopefully. However, it's not a railway station, it's a transport hub serving buses and rail

  • @Brian64512
    @Brian64512 3 місяці тому

    Some rendition on ye 🥴

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      trying to work out what rendition is? even tried to think of what it could have been in cockney rhyming

  • @danielmcfarland6116
    @danielmcfarland6116 3 місяці тому

    Worst bus service in uk ,think money could have been used for more important things, and by the time they get trains running be end of October. Whole thing is running millions over budget, so think their not very proud of that .

    • @DocumentBelfast
      @DocumentBelfast  3 місяці тому

      I'm sorry it's really not, I've gotten on buses across the UK and Ireland and we have some of the cheapest fares and nicest vehicles

  • @stephencampbell4805
    @stephencampbell4805 3 місяці тому +8

    Ridiculous waste of money. Alot of the bus services that went from Europa arent even going to the new station. Theyve been shifted to the dump that's Laganside station. Don't see the point in splashing over a 3rd of a billion quid on a new station whenever the buses will be stuck in traffic thanks to Belfast's wonderful road infrastructure. Would have been better spending money inproving that instead of this white elephant.

    • @darryl3394
      @darryl3394 3 місяці тому +3

      You sound some craic

    • @E9JMX
      @E9JMX 3 місяці тому +2

      Exactly lad. The Westlink was touted to be revamped in the late 90s, and 20+yrs later its still a fuckin shambles. Belfast portrays itself as a modern metropolitan city with all the amenities of the big cities in Europe etc, yet the road infrastructure and the public transport is diabolical.

  • @garethdevlin2732
    @garethdevlin2732 2 місяці тому

    How to waste money 👆

  • @VinDrizzle
    @VinDrizzle 3 місяці тому

    Ur a spit of Tommy Robinson lol

  • @jM-ez7fq
    @jM-ez7fq 3 місяці тому +1

    Compared to connolly station and heuston station its world class Dublin stations 3rd world 😅

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому +3

      Heuston Station was hugely enlarged within the last few decades, and now has 8 railway platforms and 3 tram platforms. It has greatly enlarged concourse with high quality food and retails offerings. In recent years, it has always been a pleasure to me to wait for a train there. At long last rail passengers in Belfast are being given something approaching the magnificence and comfort of Heuston; it was a long time coming but better late than never.

    • @jM-ez7fq
      @jM-ez7fq 3 місяці тому

      @odunadhaigh 3rd world what ever floats your boat ...no comparison...shithole like Dublin 👍

    • @AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry
      @AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry 3 місяці тому +1

      Heuston is a beautiful train station almost almost 180 years old it also has trams but its great to see Belfast getting a large brand new transport hub the more trains on the island the better hope to visit when i can travel to it by train

    • @odunadhaigh
      @odunadhaigh 3 місяці тому +1

      @@AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry Yes, Heuston was opened in 1846. In 2002, a massive extension was completed, raising the number of platforms from 5 to 9 (comprising 8 terminal platforms and 1 through platform) and with a hugely extended passenger concourse.

    • @thomasburke2683
      @thomasburke2683 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@odunadhaigh and pre -1973, Heuston only had three platforms, the departure platform now 2, the arrival platform now 5, and the little used "military" platform, now platform 1.
      You are right about Heuston being a good station, only defect being the long walk from the concourse to platforms 6,7&8.
      With an overall roof, it is a proper terminus.

  • @garethdevlin2732
    @garethdevlin2732 2 місяці тому

    How to waste money 👆