Great Victoria Street - Belfast
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SMacB
N 54° 35.742 W 005° 56.076
30U E 310422 N 6053761
Great Victoria Street in Belfast is a major thoroughfare located in the city centre and is one of the important streets used by pedestrians alighting from Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station.
Waymark Code: WMV1KZ
Location: Ulster, Ireland
Date Posted: 02/08/2017
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Great Victoria Street runs from Donegall Square (
visit link) in the north (~N54°35'44.5" W5°56'04.6") to Donegall Road (
visit link) (~N54°35'22.5" W5°56'03.6") in the south. I joined it fron the northern end and walked the length of it. The gallery contains images of WMs and other businesses along this route.
"Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a major thoroughfare located in the city centre and is one of the important streets used by pedestrians alighting from Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station and walking into to shopping streets such as Royal Avenue.
The street connects with the Donegall Road and the Lisburn Road which are also linked into Donegall Road in the southern direction and towards the Donegall Square in the northern direction, which links via Howard Street into Royal Avenue.
The street has the Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker, which is in a prominent walking route into Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station. There are also a number of churches located along the street which was named after Queen Victoria.
The station which is a terminal building, probably designed by Ulster Railway engineer John Godwin, was completed in 1848.[1] In April 1976 Northern Ireland Railways closed Great Victoria Street, and the Belfast Queen's Quay terminus of the Bangor line, replacing them with the Belfast Central station. Great Victoria Street station was demolished.
After a feasibility study was commissioned in 1986 it was agreed that a new development on the site, incorporating the reintroduction of the Great Northern Railway, was viable. The Great Northern Tower was built on the site of the old station terminus in 1992, and the second Great Victoria Street Station was opened on 30 September 1995. It is only yards from the site of its predecessor.
Notable addresses -
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Crown Liquor Saloon
Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station
Europa Hotel, Belfast
Blackstaff House, BBC Northern Ireland"
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