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Also, services from the Buscentre serve both Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport directly. [32] Ulsterbus runs joint services with Bus Éireann for its direct express service to Dublin and Dublin Airport , with National Express to Dumfries , Carlisle , Manchester , Birmingham , Milton Keynes and London , [ 33 ] and with ...
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] There are two routes, G1 (West to East Belfast) and G2 (city centre to Titanic Quarter).
An Ulsterbus Express Leyland Leopard with Alexander (Belfast) X-Type bodywork. The Leopard was a common sight on Northern Irish roads for over 40 years. Ulsterbus was founded in 1967 with the creation of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company, replacing the former Ulster Transport Authority.
German. Citizenship. British. Occupation. Bus manager. Known for. Managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus. Werner Wolfgang Heubeck CBE (24 October 1923 – 19 October 2009) [1] was a German–British transport executive, who was managing director of the Northern Ireland transport companies Ulsterbus and Citybus .
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.
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 line between Lisburn and Belfast Lanyon Place is temporarily closed due to the Belfast Grand Central enabling works. Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service towards Portadown or Newry in one direction, and to Botanic, Lanyon Place or Bangor in the other. Extra services run at peak times and reduce to hourly operation in the ...
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 ...