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For Portrush/Derry-Londonderry connections you don't need to go anywhere near Great Victoria St as they all call at Central enroute, just change platform ;)

From what I remember in the last version of the NIR Service 3 timetable (Derry~Londonderry-Belfast) there was a non-stop Coleraine-Belfast express service on a Saturday morning/afternoon and return on a Sunday evening for the UU students, managing the journey in around 55-60 minutes. With the...

Makes a change for the Enterprise to be in any way decent: the number of tweets in the NI Railways twitter feed (@nirailways) about punctuality or breakdowns likens it to something out of the 3rd World...

Renfe are well aware of the problems. Before now I've had problems with card payments being accepted in stations. I managed to book a trip with a Danske Bank UK Maestro card about a year ago, and given I travel frequently on the Atlantic Axis and Minho Line (A Coruña - Vigo - Oporto) since...

I've used that video quite a few times when my students fail to grasp the concept that the UK is a "country of counties" :D (all contents translated of course so they learn it...)

Spanish news outlets have been carrying it all day: http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/09/06/inenglish/1378468502_039832.html (this is a translation of an article originally carried on the Spanish language version of the same site).

To maintain the right of way it is maintained and at least one train travels over it at least once a day, not forgetting the possibility of driver/crew training.

Etterbeek (Belgium)

This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7ehHel2z (in French this time, sorry!) seems to suggest that system developed by Talgo maintains the gauge by hydraulic assistance. In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGn0o_wFsGI&feature=player_detailpage#t=122s it looks like the CAF bogies use...

St Pancras - Paris Nord: 492.5km Paris Montparnasse - Bordeaux St Jean: ~584km Bordeaux - Sarlat-la-Canéda: ~235km by rail and ~30km by road (bus from Souillac SNCF to S-l-C)

A dual gauge bogie has already been developed and in use in Spain for quite a few years with over 200 million successful changes, changing from Iberian Gauge of 5'6" to and from Standard Gauge, as this Adif (Spanish Railway administrator) video shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8N7Ikw87tM