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The new enhanced Enterprise timetable, will see 14 extra services operating between Thursday and Sunday, providing around 3,000 additional seats.
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Today marks 75 years since the inaugural flagship Enterprise train service connecting Belfast and Dublin set out from Northern Ireland.
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The move will help retailers such as Marks and Spencer and Asda.
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A cross-border hourly train service linking Belfast and Dublin could be in place by the end of next year, the head of Irish Rail has said.
Jim Meade, chief executive of Irish Rail, said extra train fleet coming in this year could see a hourly Enterprise service during peak times in place by the end of 2023. (Permalink) Belfast Dublin Enterprise Irish Rail |
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A new documentary series about the Enterprise train service, its history and significance to Ireland, is coming to UTV. Called Enterprise A Track Record, UTV viewers can come on board to head back in time to the heyday of steam travel in Ireland, and go on a journey of discovery about Irelands most famous train.
(Permalink) Belfast Dublin Eire Enterprise Northern Ireland  Dublin Connolly: Irish Rail 201 class 233 River Clare propels the 08.00 'Enterprise' from Belfast into Dublin Connolly on 22 March 2014. |
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These new trains will offer more seats, the latest standards in accessibility, modern soft furnishing, at-seat USB chargers and upgraded air conditioning
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Several services have been 'standing room only' on the Derry to Belfast service
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Breathtaking views are just a train ride away.
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Coastguard and lifeboat crews were dispatched along with tugs.
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Hopes of restoring a railway line between Armagh and Portadown have been given a boost.
(Permalink) Armagh Belfast Portadown Ulster Railway  Portadown [3rd]: Scene at Portadown station in August 1965 as Jeep 2-6-4T no 51 takes water alongside the north box. |
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The very last 'boat train' to Stranraer will run on Saturday 19th November 2011. This will be the 1704 service from Kilmarnock arriving at Stranraer at 1852 for the 1955 sailing of the Stena Voyager to Belfast. The 1945 ScotRail service to Glasgow Central will be the last ever boat train from Stranraer. Although ferry sailings will not cease from Stranraer until the following day, with the last sailing to Belfast being the 1955 HSS, ironically after 150 years buses will be replacing trains on that day as Network Rail carry out maintenance!
(Permalink) Belfast Boat Train HSS SAYLSA SAYLSA ScotRail Stena Voyager Stranraer Pier Strarnaer  Stranraer Harbour: View from Stranraer Harbour signalbox in 1988. The train from London arrives to connect with the 'Galloway Princess'. To the right the Glasgow train awaits departure. Access by kind permission of Brit ...  Stranraer Harbour: D7612+D7614 at Stranraer Harbour on 27 May 1967 after bringing in Grand Scottish Tour no 2 from Ayr. The locomotives are in the process of running round their train in preparation for the retur ...  Stranraer: A Sunday morning service for Glasgow Central leaving Stranraer Harbour in August 2003. |
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A rail consultant has told of his surprise at finding a Victorian engineer's proposals for a rail link between Scotland and Ireland.
Edinburgh-based David Spaven believed the plans for a tunnel, causeway or an undersea bridge between Stranraer and Belfast were not widely known today. The plans feature in a new book, Mapping the Railways, Mr Spaven has co-written with author Julian Holland. It also includes abandoned ideas for light railways on Skye and Lewis. Published for the The Times by Collins, the book has been described as the most comprehensive collection of British railway maps dating from 1819 to the present day. (Permalink) Belfast Book David Spaven Jullian Holland Lewis Mapping the Railways Skye Stranraer |
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