Queen's Quay, Belfast

Queen's Quay is a section of the River Lagan, in the western Titanic Quarter of the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[1] As its name suggests, it originally located the southern section of the Belfast docks complex.

The first train from the station ran on 2 August 1848 to Holywood, with services eventually extending as far as Castlewellan, Downpatrick, Newcastle and the fishing village of Ardglass.

This originated from Samuel Kelly setting up business on Queen's Quay in 1840 as a "grocer and commission coal merchant".

[7] The economic important of rising coal industries was pivotal in the early 1900s to the success of Northern Ireland.

The former site of the B&CDR station was used for a maintenance shop for the Northern Ireland Railways system until the mid-nineties.

Queen's Quay, October 2009
The "Ballykern" at Belfast. The same coaster, in the fleet of the Belfast shipowner and coal importer John Kelly Limited, discharging coal at Queen's Quay.
The Canberra Bar at Queen's Quay, during demolition. The background shows Cawoods Coal, October 1992.