Historic bridges · Northern Ireland
Queen's Bridge railway station, Belfast
Queen's Bridge railway station, Belfast in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 15 min–30 min
About
Queen's Bridge railway station, Belfast is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Queen's Bridge railway station was the terminus of the Belfast Central Railway which ran from the Ulster (later Belfast Central) Junction on the Ulster Railway and later Great Northern Railway (Ireland) to Ballymacarrett Junction on the Belfast and County Down Railway, through central Belfast, Ireland.
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Background
History
The Belfast Central Railway was built in 1875 to connect the three railway lines in Belfast (the Ulster Railway, the Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) and the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR)). It initially opened to goods on 12 June 1876 and then to passengers on 5 August 1878. It branched off from the Ulster Railway (later the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNRI) at Ulster Junction, and ran for 1½ miles to Queen's Bridge, with a branch from East Bridge Street Junction to the BCDR at Ballymacarrett Junction. A link to the BNCR was built later, via a tunnel under Queen's Bridge to the dock board railway at Donegall Quay Junction which, in turn, connected to the BNCR.…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5985, -5.9213
- Address
- Queen's Bridge, Belfast
- Official site
- www.belfastbarge.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q28971062 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Queen's Bridge railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen's Bridge railway station, Belfast?
- Queen's Bridge railway station, Belfast is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5985°, -5.9213°.