{"id":1896,"date":"2025-09-16T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:18:43","slug":"belfast-city-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/belfast-city-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast City Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/business\/plans-outlined-for-new-railway-halt-opposite-belfast-city-airport-terminal-S7IC3LWATFBN5IHCXNFP4QPAWI\/\">Irish News<\/a> reports on a proposed masterplan for Belfast City Airport, which apparently wants to have a railway station on the adjacent railway line to Bangor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But not this one for some reason:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1382.5086113858117!2d-5.879646567283952!3d54.60927882901688!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4861099aab5b0115%3A0xfa0f293bc10d9d15!2sSydenham!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sie!4v1758053746089!5m2!1sen!2sie\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I can&#8217;t see Translink building a new station when Sydenham is already on the airport&#8217;s doorstep. If money were no object, there would be an argument to close Sydenham and build a new station further east as well as re-opening Victoria Park. However, the Cost Benefit Analysis of such a proposal would be negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish News reports on a proposed masterplan for Belfast City Airport, which apparently wants to have a railway station on the adjacent railway line to Bangor. But not this one for some reason: Personally, I can&#8217;t see Translink building a new station when Sydenham is already on the airport&#8217;s doorstep. If money were no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}