The news has been welcomed in Derry after long delays. Funding to upgrade the railway line between Derry city and Coleraine has been confirmed by the Department for Infrastructure. The civil engineering work involves renewing the entire track between the Co Derry villages of Castlerock and Eglinton and is pencilled in for completion before 2028.
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Dealing with the queries on the Sunday service, the group Chief Executive explained the issue was the need for additional investment.
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'We are on track to deliver the Zero Emission project on Foyle Metro by the end of the summer 2023'.
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Councillors in Derry and Strabane have voiced their opposition to a housing development which could hamper the chances of future rail expansion in the North West.
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The new North West Transport Hub project in Derry's Waterside has won another top award. It scooped the prestigious Best Overall Entry award at the National Railway Heritage Awards in London. The facility, planned and delivered by Translink and completing during 2020, has been a £27.5m investment, with funding received from the EUs INTERREG VA Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
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Those involved in the West Ulster Rail Initiative (WURI) are preparing a submission to the inter-governmental review of all-island rail. The purpose of the meeting is to measure the support for rail in Donegal which would link up the Atlantic Rail Corridor [ARC] from Limerick to Sligo, with Derry.
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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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The social housing body behinds a new flats complex along a former railway line said they are surprised by concerns raised by Into The West after a successful appeal against a decision not to grant planning permission for it.
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It is clear that Northern Ireland has a stark east-west divide in transport infrastructure. One which fails to fully reflect its population distribution, and raises questions of sectarian policymaking and a Belfast-centric nature to governance here. It is also clear that the era of car dominance in urban areas is slowly drawing to a close worldwide, which Northern Ireland will inevitably catch up with. Climate change and a desire for more liveable towns and cities will ...
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Infrastructure has become a hot topic in NI since the London government established a 'Union Connectivity Review' (UCR) to recommend projects to strengthen links between the UK's constituent parts. Since then the media has been consumed by the possibility of a physical connection between NI and Scotland - first in the form of a bridge and more recently an undersea tunnel, christened the 'Boris Bridge' and 'Boris Burrow' (though I would suggest a more appropriate title should incorporate the name
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SDLP councillor Steven Edwards has called for the Great Northern Railway line to be reinstated between Strabane and Londonderry.
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Campaigners pushing for new rail lines from Derry have met with the Republic's Minister for Transport to discuss their proposals.

Members of the Into The West group met with Eamon Ryan, who is also the leader of the Green Party in the Republic, on Friday.

Among the topics discussed were a proposed new rail service from Derry to Letterkenny and a new direct rail line from Derry to Dublin.

Into The West was founded in 2001 to campaign against a Stormont decision to close the Derry-Belfast railway line west of Coleraine.
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