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The Belfast Central Railway (BCR) was a railway company operating in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The company was incorporated by the Belfast Central Railway Act 1872 ( 35 & 36 Vict. c. clxxi) and acquired by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in 1885.
1900 - Belfast had the world's largest tobacco factory, tea machinery and fan-making works, handkerchief factory, dry dock and color Christmas card printers. Belfast was also the world's leading manufacturer of "fizzy drinks" (soft drinks). [66] The city of Belfast is 75% Protestant, however, the whole island of Ireland is 75% Catholic. [68]
The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
That summer it closed Northern Ireland's last 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge lines: the Ballycastle Railway and the Ballymena and Larne Railway. [1] In 1954 seven 6-coach diesel units were put on the Belfast-Bangor line, making it the first completely dieselised passenger service in Ireland. [3]
The Golden Years of the Great Northern Railway. Vol. Part 1. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-182-X. Arnold, Robert M. (1986) [1980]. The Golden Years of the Great Northern Railway. Vol. Part 2. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-126-9. Ferris, Tom (2003). The Great Northern Railway: An Irish Railway Pictorial.
It branched off from the Ulster Railway (later the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNRI) at Ulster Junction, and ran for 1½ miles to Queen's Bridge, with a branch from East Bridge Street Junction to the BCDR at Ballymacarrett Junction. A link to the BNCR was built later, via a tunnel under Queen's Bridge to the dock board railway at Donegall ...
Annaghmore Turf Railway; Ballycastle Railway; Belfast Central Railway; Belfast and County Down Railway and its constituents: Belfast, Hollywood and Bangor Railway; Downpatrick, Dundrum and Newcastle Railway; Belfast and Northern Counties Railway and its constituents: Belfast and Ballymena Railway; Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush ...
Belfast-Derry railway line and north eastern through Antrim and Coleraine to Derry; Some important rail stations in Belfast include Lanyon Place, and—due to open in the autumn of 2024, replacing the Great Victoria Street, which closed in May 2024—Belfast Grand central station, Botanic, City Hospital, Yorkgate.