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Trains get Green Light at Belfast Grand Central Station
Translink has commenced rail services from Belfast Grand Central Station. This sees the rail line between Belfast and Lisburn reopen for passenger services and Enterprise services will operate to/from Belfast Grand Central Station. A new rail timetable is in place and passengers are encouraged to plan their trip using information on the website www.translink. co.uk or Journey Planner available. Translink Group Chief Executive Chris Conway said: “We know this will be good news for many of our rail customers, who need to use this main terminus station for Belfast. The start of rail at Grand Central Station will bring enhanced connectivity and integration of the wider public transport network with bus, coach and rail connections across The Mayor, Cllr Curtis Dickson, and the Chair of LCCC’s Leisure & Community Wellbeing Committee Jonathan Craig (centre), photographed with Mr Stephen Moore, Principal of Friends’ School (right) with Angela McCann BEM, Head of Community Service, and Paul Allison, Museum Service Manager (left).
250 years of Friends’ School is explored in a new exhibition
‘Lisburn’s Quaker School: 250 Years of Friends’ was officially opened by Cllr Jonathan Craig, Chairman of LCCC’s Leisure & Community Wellbeing Committee, at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum on 4 October 2024. The free exhibition marks 250 years since the school was founded at Prospect Hill, Lisburn, in 1774. The exhibition can be viewed Monday to Saturday, 9.30am-5pm. Admission is free. Using prints, letters, books, rare artefacts, and loans from Friends’
School and National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI), the exhibition explores the early history of the school and its Quaker roots, as well as life as a student through the centuries. At the launch the Mayor Councillor Kurtis
Dickson, a past pupil, remarked that: “The town of Lisburn, as we know it, is just over 400 years old and it is incredible to think that for over 250 years of that long history, there has been a school on Prospect Hill. The 1798 Rebellion by the United Irishmen, the
Famine, the partition of Ireland, and the First and Second World Wars, have all come and gone, yet the school has remained open, educating students for life beyond the gates.”
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the island. “The new train station will also see automatic ticketing gates introduced and passengers can purchase tickets which they can scan at gates to speed up journeys and enhance convenience. “Passengers can buy their ticket from one of the rail ticket vending machines in the station, use the mLink mobile app or iLink Smartcard. You can also buy online and collect at the ticket vending machine”. Chris added: “An hourly Enterprise service between the island’s two capital cities is available”. Passengers are advised to check their journey in advance on the Translink website: www.translink. co.uk; Journey Planner, or by phoning the Contact Centre on 02890 666630.