Railway services resumed, however, in 1995 with the opening of a rebuilt Great Victoria Street station, integrated with the Europa Buscentre.

[14][15] The station is located on a 8-hectare (860,000 sq ft) site owned by The Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (trading as Translink) between the former Europa Buscentre and Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station,[2] both of which it replaces.

[18] Like the former Great Victoria Street, it is the terminus of Northern Ireland Railways' Derry, Larne, Bangor and Portadown/Newry lines.

This also means that the Portadown to Bangor route no longer has direct through traffic and is divided into two separate lines.

On 29 May 2024, the first "The Grand Connection Roadshow" was held at Lanyon Place Train Station to communicate plans for the facility.

The roadshow toured various locations throughout Northern Ireland, including shopping centres and train and bus stations.

[29] On 3 July 2024, Translink closed the rail line between Lisburn and Belfast Lanyon Place to facilitate the Grand Central enabling works scheduled for the summer.

All stations between these two points were closed, with a temporary shuttle service running between Portadown and Lisburn.

[32][33] On 19 August 2024, Translink announced that bus operations at Belfast Grand Central would commence on Sunday, 8 September 2024.

The new station's first departure would be the X1 Goldline bus service to Dublin Busáras, scheduled for 8 September 2024 at 05:00.

The former Europa Buscentre was converted into a corridor connecting Belfast Grand Central to Great Victoria Street.

[36][37][38] On 23 September 2024, the cross-border Enterprise service began trial runs at the new station, in advance of its relocation from Belfast Lanyon Place.

On Sundays the line reduces to hourly operation between Grand Central and Portadown, with Newry only being served by the last train of the day.

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