<b>80-class &amp; MED - Great Victoria Street station, Belfast</b><br>80-class No. 83 passes an MED set on its approach to the former Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Great Victoria Street station, Belfast. Taken from inside the signal cabin (with permission from the signalman), everything in this photograph vanished in the years following closure of the station in 1976. Built by BREL in 1975, 83 was withdrawn on 30 August 2006 and scrapped in 2008. MED 18 was built by the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) in 1953 and withdrawn in October 1977 - no MEDs survive in preservation. While train services returned to a new Great Victoria Street station on 30 September 1995, much of the land in the background was given over to construction of the "Westlink" motorway.
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