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Cobh offers great sea views, with it's gigantic natural harbour and glimpses of the impressive georgian barracks across the water. I would definitely recommend the walking tour of the town by this guy: http://www.titanic.ie/ He talks a bit about the Titanic & the Lusitania, and when I did it...

Does anyone know how many paths there are on the Belfast to Portadown line? Is is at capacity, could it cope with an hourly Enterprise service and an extra slow train to Portadown. Extra platforms at Great Victoria Street would be an easy thing to do but presumably there's no room for any...

I know Stratford International sees 4 overpriced trains an hour to Kent but it must rank as one of the least successful super expensive train projects in recent years.

The original Armagh route suffers from not having a station in the heart of the town centre, though you could easily continue it through to the retail park on the A9 if you knock down ten houses (or shrink the retail warehouses instead). It could make for a small park & ride. Ideally I would go...

I have to say I didn't even consider being a proponent for electrification in my consultation response. I was in an odd predicament because I'm very supportive of it in mainland Britain, but given how immature the railway scene is in Northern Ireland it just seems like trying to run a marathon...

Deadlines for submissions is coming up, you have to send in your recommendations by Friday. I've only read 1/3 of it, but I chuckled at the sentence that claimed 6 to 7tph on key Northern Ireland rail lines. Yeah, but only three/four in one direction! Is this the first time the TPH measure has...

Could it be that there are valid reasons for the incompetent running of bus services If that isn't the case then surely public transport has one of the highest rates of idiots in senior management than compared to any other industry. It might seem like that when you're at the coalface- looking...

One problem in cities is that people often aren't very clued up on local geography. You get people complaining that 'if I wanted to travel to my place of work I would need to get a bus in to town and then another bus out again'; whereas if they looked at a map they could see that actually if...

The introduction of an hourly clock face timetable to Coleraine is potentially the biggest improvement to NIR in twenty years. The other difference is that it looks like the Bangor & Portadown trains have been been split off from each other, though presumably cross platform interchange means...

An important but little known fact of the Glorious Revolution was that although King James would have been a tyrant to his Protestant subjects (had he won that is), Catholics and (shock horror) Non Conformist suffered atrocious treatment under King Billy's watch. It's one of the great ironies of...

While it's true that the nationalist electorate didn't ask their politicians to review flags policy, it is understandable that the SDLP and Alliance party want to create a more neutral council environment. Sinn Fein's motives were possibly more of the coat trailing variety, though in the face of...

A lot of the rioters don't have an agenda as such, it's just seen as a bit of fun. As for the UVF, they are upset over upcoming supergrass trials which might see loads of their senior members being locked up. By organising violence they are hoping to convince the police to back down from this...

Mind you they managed to route the Washington system through the city despite all the state & administrative boundaries it crosses. New York hasn't managed to do that very well over the last century.

It seems the safety issues (the fatal crash from a few years ago) in Washington has led naive senators to call for more strict safety measures for all of America's subway systems. They've drafted up regulation that will end up reducing the quality of service on systems which are already safe...