The Grand Connection: Behind the Scenes at Belfast Grand Central Station (5)

Our people and partners have the skills, knowledge and GRAND expertise that ensure the success of Translink, and the best possible service for passengers.
That’s why we have involved staff from across our business and stakeholders from across NI in every stage of the development of Belfast Grand Central Station.
Hear more about staff and stakeholder engagement ⬇️
A Grand Welcome awaits this Autumn…

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Good, cannot wait to visit.

[@thomasburke2683]

With all the hype, one would expect a world class terminus, with trains and passengers protected from the elements by a trainshed.
Instead, it seems, trains will terminate outside the building, as at the resurrected (L') Derry Waterside. Platform canopies are no substitute for full, or at least partial, cover by a roof.
No doubt bureaucrats will say that particulates from diesel exhaust are harmful to health, and thus non compliant with modern standards, but in this day and age, erecting a high ceilinged roof with extractor fans or natural ventilation, is surely not beyond our capabilities.
Queen's Quay and the pre-1976 Great Victoria Street stations, both had trainsheds covering at least part of the platforms; I don't recall any complaints about fumes in them. Of course both were in a sorry state, between lack of money and the damage done by the Luftwaffe and terrorists.
It's too late now, but it would have been wonderful if the Boyne Bridge had been demolished or replaced, allowing the rail terminus to return to a Great Victoria Street frontage, with the bus station alongside, rather than Grosvenor Road.

[@SCK586]

Absolutely useless unless you tell us WHERE EXACTLY to walk on foot to find what they describe as the "Durham St entrance "...But where exactly do I go from say ,Glengall St to this Durham St ...Be more specific ..We don't know how to find the entrance !

[@Viscount_Castlereagh]

Buzz words make me sick.