Great Victoria Street

Overview and details
Great Victoria Street is a railway station serving the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is one of two major stations in the city, along with Lanyon Place, and is one of the four stations located in the city centre, the others being Belfast Central, Botanic and City Hospital. It is situated near Great Victoria Street, one of Belfast's premier commercial zones, and Sandy Row. It is also in a more central position than Belfast Central with the Europa Hotel, Grand Opera House and The Crown Liquor Saloon all nearby.

Great Victoria Street station shares a site with Europa Buscentre, the primary bus station serving Belfast City Centre.

The current station has two island platforms providing a total of four platform faces. Platforms 2 and 3 run the full length of the site and open onto the station's main concourse. Platforms 1 and 4 are half the length and are accessible by walking down the other platforms.

Great Victoria Street is the hub of Northern Ireland's suburban rail services, with Bangor line, Derry~Londonderry line, Newry line and weekend Larne Line trains all terminating there.

Trivia

 * The station is on the site of a former linen mill, beside where Durham Street crossed the Blackstaff River at the Saltwater (now Boyne) Bridge.
 * There were plans to add a fifth platform to facilitate the Enterprise, but these were canceled.
 * Great Victoria Street has since been rebuilt in the late 90s as it was a prime target for the IRA to bomb and was bombed a few times. Aside from that it is situated in close vicinity to the Europa hotel, which was the most bombed building by the IRA.