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Ah, just across the road from Grosvenor road police station. I was taken there for an interview a long time ago It's like a nuclear bunker inside.

afternoon

You overdid the music on this video

Apologies about the poor resolution, it seems the TH-cam compression gods have not been kind to this video!

You know why the guage is so strange... there were a couple of different gauges in NI/ROI and when they wanted to standardise some wanted the uk guage some wanted another guage. The uk Government being the helpful cunts they are, decided to split the difference

Its about time they replaces GVS - they do need to expand the rail network. I grew up in Lisburn .

Loving the video! Spotted myself in the reflection in the windows a couple of times🙈. “Bloody Norah!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 3:48

Great video!

Michael

You got off at Seaton just as I got on 😅

Next time you are in Seaton delaval you need to go for the ice cream. Best in the country.

The reasons Ashington has been built as a new bay platform, rather than using the old platforms, is because that way a train that is laying over at Ashington before returning to Newcastle won't be blocking the running lines for freight trains running to/from Lynemouth. And it has been built on the west side of the line because there was plenty of space there to build a car park and all the facilities, whereas on the east side there is no space for any of that. It makes very little difference walking to the town centre which side of the tracks you start from, and presumably the plans are to reopen the footpath that runs alongside the tracks at which point it becomes even less of an issue.

Great video It was nice to meet you at Seaton Delaval. I was the chap in the red hat 😁... not 🎅 .. he comes next week

Great video! Enjoyed getting on the first train!

Great video!

Yay, the Michael perspective is here! Great to see you last Sunday :)

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You spelled Delaval wrong on the map, idiot!

What’s it like to be a froot

It is not CENTRAL.

I can't wait for 22.2.2222 22:22:22

It’s a Tube line because it’s a train that goes through a Tube 8:39

A joke of a transport hub that is not a transport hub for much of Belfast. The buses from North Belfast don't stop at the station and there are no train stations along the 5 miles of North Belfast rail lines.

Class 465 & 466 Are Sadly Soon Being Withdrawn 😭

You Mentioned Southeastern

Good Luck With The Class 387/1 At Southern

What a waste of money, bloody bus service in Belfast is rubbish their either late or pulll away just as people reach it ,ive watched as a woman with pram nearly at the bus and he pulled away just as she reached it ,now their pulling down the boyne bridge that dosnt interfere with the trains, don't live in sandy row but can sympathise with them .the first snow will stop the trains, rather use the car than train or bus

Cheese

Excited? As a local resident this hub is just causing more upset than needed! Translink need to consult and listen to locals. Businesses losing out on trade, residents tortured with noise from the ongoing work at all hours of the night and heritage being removed for no reason when it could have been worked around! ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL TRANSLINK

as a person who lives in Belfast and is going to see this place tomorrow, i am excited to see the complete overhaul that grand central has gone through, i remember seeing the old one all the time and the new one looks amazing! I will be going to take pictures and see the trains, excellent documentation video!

13:03 hopefully there will be more shops and seating

What an ugly building.

The first thing I noticed when you were in the Chiltern carriage was that awful squeaking the whole time - that used to drive me mad on the HSTs, and I was delighted to see the back of them and especially to _hear_ the back of them! Yes, it does seem a ridiculous waste to have built those new carriages and then have them scrapped at only a few years old, so hopefully they can be transferred to Chiltern to replace the ageing Mk3s. I don't know what the performance would be like of a class 68 with _two_ Mk5a rakes attached! Also, good like finding a line with 11-car platforms to accommodate it!

The station is so bland and forgettable and cheap looking. Awful.

brilliant insight, where are you from yourself?

No sign of any sort of modern art or other artistic artwork at the new station , a lack of vision by the architects in my opinion . Very sterile

Is there a train to the airport and ferry?

Lots of concrete, steel and glass. Nothing to soften the interior or exterior like plants and trees. Small retail 'pods' for local producers would've been imaginative. Changing weekly or monthly, to give more exposure and test the market. I believe a real opportunity was missed here. To produce a public space that might encourage similarly innovative spaces across the city. I'm guessing that the lack of more seating before the platform barriers is to allow room for queuing. Especially for the Enterprise. However, more seating would've been thoughtful. For those with mobility issues and the elderly.

I wonder why there are 8 platforms? Great Victoria street ran fine with just 4... maybe it's future proofing for a new train line?

Very nice train station, absoluely what a city like Belfast deserves. But - we have 2024 and they really have separate vending machines of rail and bus? Are they joking?

What a waste of money , it's a big oul barrick no style

As someone from Belfast, I can tell you that this is all a front by Translink this new station is already causing many problems.

Surprised there is no Solar on this huge roof.

Beautiful station, though it's quite unusual that such a big and modern station comes without electrified tracks

Nice overview, now we just need the railways to justify it 😊

Hopefully this new station will help to facilitate a more frequent (and hopefully, eventually, electrified) hourly Enterprise service - and maybe even railway reopenings in the north of Ireland. Armagh? Enniskillen? Derry via Omagh? Here's hoping 🤞

Will never see the first train rolling into the West 🙈

Missed opportunity for a large Train shed which could have been a real show stopper

this is Britan no matter what size the tracks are