{"id":559,"date":"2022-03-15T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:52:21","slug":"belfast-central-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/belfast-central-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Central Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Opened in 1976 to replace Great Victoria Street and Queen&#8217;s Quay, Central Station in Belfast was supposed to spawn a regeneration of the area around East Bridge Street &#8211; something that never happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things moved on and the real &#8220;central&#8221; station &#8211; Great Victoria Street &#8211; reopened in 1995, along with a new section of railway (the Blythefield curve) to make  Great Victoria Street usable as a proper central train station. In recognition of this loss of status, in 2018, the station was renamed &#8220;Lanyon Place&#8221; and any pretence at centrality was abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things move slowly in the public sector &#8211; by pure chance, I was passing by Lanyon Place on a train today and happened to see staff taking out the old &#8220;Belfast Central&#8221; platform signs from a side entrance and loading same into a van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opened in 1976 to replace Great Victoria Street and Queen&#8217;s Quay, Central Station in Belfast was supposed to spawn a regeneration of the area around East Bridge Street &#8211; something that never happened. Things moved on and the real &#8220;central&#8221; station &#8211; Great Victoria Street &#8211; reopened in 1995, along with a new section of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}