Yorkgate closes, York Street opens

[Darrman]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68916989

Overall cost at £17 million, and now with ticket machines and barriers. The big hill Yorkgate was on top of has given way to a three floor building in York Street.

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Probably would have cost a couple of billion down here

[DERAILED]

Dear god, Translink have even officially called it a "train" station......is this for the benefit of US visitors?

[jhb171achill]

Three things irritate me intensely about Translinksterbus.

1. Every single location is called "----- Train Station"; from major stations like Lanyon Centralplace Maysfields, or whatever it's called this month, to Lambeg halt.

2. Yet Dundalk is called a "Rail halt", yet places like Scarva or Bellarena, mere platforms in the wilderness, are "train stations".

3. The massively irritating middle-England BBC accent on all the station announcements. What's wrong with an accent from somewhere within the NIR network?

[K801]

Its called a train station because, yawn, the hint is in the name?

[Horsetan]

On 4/5/2024 at 9:05 PM, jhb171achill said:

.... What's wrong with an accent from somewhere within the NIR network?

Ah, if only someone had asked the late Dr. Paisley and Martin McGuinness to provide voice samples all those years ago....

[Galteemore]

IIRC many of the NIR announcements in recent years were done by Christopher Boomer, son of late RPSI chairman Sullivan Boomer, himself an occasional BBC Radio Ulster stand-in…..

[jhb171achill]

5 hours ago, Horsetan said:

Ah, if only someone had asked the late Dr. Paisley and Martin McGuinness to provide voice samples all those years ago....

Nevaaar, nevaaar, nevaaar.......  (OK, it's preferable to what they have now!)