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Albert Memorial Clock. The tallest building in Belfast is the Obel Tower at 86 metres (282 feet). It is the tallest building in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. The tallest structure in Belfast is the Black Mountain transmission station, servicing TV and Radio, at 228.6 m (750 ft 0 in).
The European Union Commission issued a TSI (Technical Specifications for Interoperability) on 30 May 2002 (2002/735/EC) that sets out standard platform heights for passenger steps on high-speed rail. These standard heights are 550 and 760 mm (21.7 and 29.9 in) [14] [note 3]. There are special cases: 840 mm (33.1 in) for the Netherlands, 915 mm ...
Height Year Notes 1 Victoria Tower: City of Westminster, London 102 m (335 ft) 1858 [28] [29] Architectural height 102 m (335 ft), roof height 98.5 m (323 ft). 3 Manchester Town Hall: Manchester, Greater Manchester: 87.2 m (286 ft) 1877 [30] 4 Civil Justice Centre: Manchester, Greater Manchester 80 m (260 ft) 2007 [31] 5 Royal Courts of Justice
Height (m) Height (ft) Year Built Notes 1 Poolbeg Generating Station, Chimney 2 Chimney 207.8 682 and 681 1978 and 1970 [31] [32] 2 Poolbeg Generating Station, Chimney 1 Chimney 207.48 681 1970 [31] [32] 3 Three Rock transmitter Guyed Mast 152.4 500 2002 [33] [34] [a] 4 Spire of Dublin: Monument 120 394 2002 [35] [36] 5 Donnybrook transmitter
The island of Ireland has relatively few tall buildings. The island's first tall building was Liberty Hall, built in 1965, which stands at 59.4 metres (195 ft). The current tallest habitable building on the island of Ireland is the Obel Tower in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 85 metres (279 ft).
760mm platforms are compromise between 550mm (UIC standard) and 915mm (UK classic standard). 58.138.45.196 ( talk ) 09:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC) [ reply ] All of the EU TSI are actually standards derived from a compromise - trains built for 550mm are okay with older 350mm platforms, and 760mm S-Bahn trains ( DBAG_Class_424 / 425/426 ) in Germany ...
This gauge was given legal status by the Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846, [3] which specified 4 ft 8.5 in (1.435 m) for Great Britain, 5 ft 3 in for Ireland. The UR was re-gauged in 1846, at a cost of £19,000 (about £2,324,000 today), and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway in 1857 for £38,000 (about £4,579,000 today).
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of January 2025, there are 177 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 25 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...