“Celebrating Great Victoria Street” by Robert White

May 2024’s final removal of Belfast’s Great Victoria Street terminus from Ireland’s railway map prompted this eulogy for the departed. A user of the station since the early 1960s, Robert White looks back over its life and times, from the early days of the Ulster Railway, through its evolution under the GNR(I) and more recent transport bodies. Could the earliest plans for a different station location have made the Belfast Central Railway unnecessary? Growth, alterations, decline, closure and resurrection are all illustrated.