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The station and adjacent works were very badly damaged in an air raid, in April 1941. The
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station at the concourse end were also destroyed. The damage was so severe that, in 1944, town planners proposed, in the first area plan for
Belfast, that the entire station should be moved several blocks to the south, but this proposal was never implemented.
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