Belfast Grand Central Station

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, airfixfan said:

One day last week counted 25 Translink staffing rail station plus 29 on duty in bus station

 Gents is still.out of order in bus station. Progress!

Most staffed station in Ireland, possibly? Any advances on that? Only likely competitor is Heuston Station, and I doubt if can match that.

[Tractionman]

13 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

As for the loss of through  services Bangor to Portadown - yes I know that only a modest number of folk would want that - one connection I looked up offered journeys of 1hr 18 minutes and 1 hour 41 minutes ....

Perhaps not so many folks travelling Bangor to Portadown but many more I suspect doing Portadown/Lisburn to Botanic and City Hospital are affected by the termination of all services at GC and having to wait and change for the one or two station stops to continue their journeys?

Botanic and City Hospital are big employers for the area, as well as having lots of users, students and patients, the latter in particular I would have thought not welcoming an added change to get to their appointment at hospital...

Just anecdotally, I had a student the other day who drove from Dunmurry to Queen's, rather than taking the train, I am sure he's not alone in making that decision to drive into Belfast, and if multiplied up, combined with the various roadworks around the place, we get to the level of traffic chaos we are now seeing in the city centre.

Edited October 23 by Tractionman

[Colin_McLeod]

Lisburn line passengers having to change at GC would be like Bangor line passengers having  to change at Titanic Quarter or Larne Line passengers having to change at York Street.

[airfixfan]

Doing a bit in Queens at the minute. Over coffee today all I heard was complaints about Grand Circus