Great Victoria Train Station's last day of operation before being shut to make way for its giant replacement (May 10, 2024)

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00:00 [ambient noise]

00:27 Well it's one of those bittersweet moments where we're marking a point in history

00:32 when Great Victoria Street Station eventually closes for the final time tonight.

00:37 This station itself has been here about 30 years but there has been a Great Victoria Street Station

00:42 going back to the mid-1800s so there is a lot of history in this area.

00:46 But at the same token we're making way for a brand new station which is

00:50 Transform, public transport in Northern Ireland.

00:52 Why has this station become inadequate? Why do they need to replace it?

00:56 Well this station for a lot of reasons, I mean it's quite compact from a passenger point of view.

01:01 Getting through the top of the station here into the main concourse is quite small.

01:06 We've tried to do our best to integrate it with bus whereas the new station would have a completely integrated concourse.

01:12 It will allow for twice the number of passenger journeys that we have at the minute

01:16 and also extend the platform to four platforms, the eighth platform.

01:20 It will also enable us to bring the Enterprise in here, there just isn't enough room for the Enterprise.

01:24 This will allow the original Great Victoria Street Station that used to have the Belfast to Dublin connection

01:29 will be bringing it up back again.