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This stop is served by Ulsterbus, which provides routes to locations such as Belfast, Lisburn City Centre, and Derriaghy. Additionally, there is currently a bus service from this stop to Great Victoria Street, serving stations along the line from Lisburn to Belfast Lanyon Place, due to the Belfast Grand Central enabling works.
The nearest railway station is Antrim railway station, 10 km (6.2 mi) from the airport in Antrim, and serviced by a bus (the 109A Ulsterbus service) to and from Antrim bus/railway station from there connections to Derry and Belfast by train can be made. There are connections to Belfast, Lisburn and Derry.
Transport Acts in 1967 split the UTA into road and rail operations, the bus operations being taken over by a new company called Ulsterbus in the same year. The rail operations temporarily became Ulster Transport Railways (UTR) before being taken over by Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) in 1968. Portadown with former GNR (potential) line to Armagh.
Ulsterbus is a public transport operator in Northern Ireland and operates bus services outside Belfast. It is part of Translink , the brand name for the subsidiary operating companies of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company , which also includes Northern Ireland Railways and Metro Belfast .
Website. translink.co.uk. Translink is the brand name of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHCo), a public corporation providing public transport in Northern Ireland. NI Railways, Ulsterbus and Metro are all part of Translink. It is led by CEO Chris Conway.
The Buscentre is the Belfast terminus for most Ulsterbus "Goldline" services in Northern Ireland. These serve various destinations that are not on the railway network, including Enniskillen, Banbridge, Omagh, Downpatrick, Cavan, Newcastle, Strabane and Armagh.
The first railway station in Ulster was opened on the site of the former Great Victoria Street station in 1839. It became the northern terminus of the GNR's non-stop Dublin–Belfast express in 1947, and in 1962, having been taken over by the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA), platform 5 was closed, filled in, and turned into a bus station providing a truly integrated bus-rail station for the ...
Glider (Belfast) A Glider bus in Belfast City Centre. A Glider bus stop. Glider is a bus rapid transit system in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed to improve the efficiency of mass transit in the city by connecting East and West Belfast and the Titanic Quarter via the city centre. [1] The service is operated by Translink. [2][3]