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    GWR Class 387's to Cardiff

    They are clearly indicated in the PDF timetable. https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/timetables/may-26-december-26/CL-train-times-17-May-to-12-December-2026-v2.pdf
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    Large gaps in Elizabeth line west of Paddington

    That service pattern has been in place on Saturdays since last December.
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    Passports Required from 28 September for Ferry Travel Republic of Ireland to Great Britain

    Yes, it would have just been showing a passport or ID to prove that you could avail of the CTA.
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    Passports Required from 28 September for Ferry Travel Republic of Ireland to Great Britain

    There has been mandatory passage through immigration at Dublin on all flight arrivals since 1997, so you would have interacted with a Garda officer in the early 2000s.
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    CAF class 197 Civity for TfW: News and updates on introduction.

    It lays over while GWR services fill the two hour gaps in TfW services in each direction between Cardiff and Carmarthen with services from and to Paddington. There’s already services to Pembroke Dock and Fishguard around that time, so without unnecessarily duplicating the GWR service there’s...
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    CIÉ is the holding company, it is responsible for: - Providing legal services to the group - Managing claims for the group - Property management for the group - Providing IT & telecoms services to the group - Managing the group pension scheme - Providing insurance to the group
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    All of the options considered will be put into the public domain when the public consultation on the emerging preferred route happens later this year.
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    The Enterprise is slowed down significantly by having to trundle along behind DART services between Malahide and Connolly. The only freight (which is currently suspended due to works in Dublin Port) is zinc traffic to/from Tara Mines. There is of course a side benefit that would accrue in that...
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    You might well be an employee but working at the coal face doesn’t mean you’re going to be privy to how projects are being funded. If you had watched previous Oireachtas Transport Committee hearings as I have done, you’d know that what I am posting is correct. It was made clear at one of them...
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    With due respect it is not an NTA project - they didn’t fund it. If you did some basic research you’d realise that Irish Rail have taken the lead on this - this was very much Jim Meade’s project. The feasibilty study has been funded by the EU and the Department of Transport directly to Irish...
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    This isn’t an NTA project - it is an Irish Rail project. Perhaps let’s wait and see what the detailed plans are first. 1785744489 Precisely.
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    The point that I was making was that it is now being funded from the Shared Island fund as opposed to the DART+ funding pot - DART+ Coastal North is not funded currently and as such work won’t be happening on it until the next five year capital spending plan. This change means that those...
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    The Clongriffin loop is actually going to be progressed faster via funding from the Irish Government’s Shared Island fund, along with reinstating Mosney loop and some works at Skerries loop...
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    While tunnelling would be considered, it is highly unlikely that tunnelling will be the preferred option given the massive cost involved. Four tracking the existing railway, even with CPO, would be much cheaper.
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    Quadruple track for Ireland, Dublin Connolly to Malahide

    We shall have to see - the details have yet to be published. I wouldn’t exaggerate the wealth of the areas either - some of them are quite deprived. 1785162455 Some high level information on FourNorth is now on the Irish Rail website...

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