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Hi mate 1 am in Antrim hospital for 9 days now mate and I could been in Antrim hospital for a other 5 weeks to get my bad keens and leges ot get me right mate goodbye for now Clive in N lreland

Great, informative video. Thank you from NZ

Thank you so much for your video - this makes the current disruptions since closing GVS more bearable.

Slightly insane.

1:35 My Opinion Is To Remove It To Make Way For 1:40, No Demolishing!, Remove The Hut To The Other Platform This Is A Station Hut You Plan For Crumlin Train Station, To Be Converted From A Halt To A Station

So , not being in the country, is the Grand. Central station going to be on the grounds of where the Europa was OR where the Central station was?

Busses and trams can share a lane as happens in many European cities

I would make much more sense to separate out the international services with a specialized station with capacity for the inevitable passport control facilities.

You have a strong supporter here in Dublin & there are so many reasons that we should be involved in linking Sligo & Donegal alongside Monaghan & Cavan to the heartlands of Ulster & on Southward to Cork & Limerick via existing lines & restructure development away from Dublin !

I was very lucky to have done both routes in 2003. I was aware the Antrim-Lisburn line was going to close not long after my visit. Why can’t they simply keep both routes open? Utter madness! But it’s all cost; and when accountants in charge you’ve no chance!

Free travel for everyone would take a lot of cars off the road. Cut down congestion ,pollution & health issues..

The shots at 4:43 to 4:55 show Belfast trolleybus 168 with a Huddersfield trolley which may be no. 631. Does anyone know where the photographs were taken? The first shot shows a maroon liveried single decker which may indicate Reading. 631 did indeed visit Reading in 1969{?} to operate an enthusiast tour but I was not aware that a Belfast trolley also visited.

Love the progress, this sort of thing should be all across Ireland.

Fantastic video. A crying shame of the several decades of neglect on rail investments in Ireland, spending hundreds of billions more on tarmac and developers, trapped in a cut throat dependancy on oil, on roads and in a climate crisis. Plus partition

Trams

Light rail would offer Belfast a new different way of travel. If designed correctly in the narrow streets that Belfast has, Metre gauge electric traction would offer this. Metre gauge also offers various types of tram as seen in city's like in Poland and Germany. Trams can offer a excellent passenger transportation in pedestrian precints taking passengers direct to the shops where they wish to go. Do not make the mistakes, that have been made elsewhere, where trams were not taken into these important pedestrian areas. This has caused many schemes to be stopped, and is really the best way forward. Remember traffic conditions have been correctly solved elsewhere, look again in Poland and Germany. I have advised elsewhere with my knowledge of the problems seen and can be easily achieved. A real map of the proposals would have been helpful. You mention using trams on bridges, please be aware that the bridge must be strong enough to carry the weight of light tram. Some proposals in city's have now allowed for this problem. I look forward to following the development you are proposing.

Imagine if NI had a NI Bus pass for £500 per year and, a Rail & Buss pass for £1000 per year along with Buses working along with the Trains by Buses waiting for the Trains to arrive before the Bus goes moreover, it works well in the Netherlands . When i look at how little Freight is carried on the NI and Eire Railways is a shame as there is real potential for reinstating at least 40% of the Rail Ireland once had and this will help reduce the number of Car journey’s . Thanks for sharing………

Glider train/tram? this is interesting

The trolley buses were blue originally.

I go running near catalyst/amazon to heron road. It’s a train to nowhere. Nobody lives there and the offices aren’t busy enough to justify a tram. The other problem with trams is that they can’t be re-routed. Northern Ireland is so unstable that buses regularly need to be diverted. How do you do that with a tram?

I don’t understand why you want to keep the “loop-like” route near city centre. G2 runs in the current loop configuration only because it’s a bus and because of the one way system near Donegall Square. If the whole square is being pedestrianised the light rail can just run two-way on the north side of the square. The same applies to the river crossing, the light rail can just run two-way along QE Bridge and then along the bank.

Well done again Andrew. I hope you succeed in your goals!

Well done great video. The island of Ireland has great potential for new heavy rail projects.

The N.I. Civil Service couldn't run a bath so enough with invoking the name of the DoI who are nothing but the toe jam on the feet of the globalist masters who want the peons out of their cars stuck in 15 minute ghettos. Put it out to the free market and if they can see a profit they will tender for permission to build and run the service, if they don't then forget it. I'm personally fed up with pie in the sky dreams of people wanting to pick my pocket for more and more money leaving me with nothing but the lint.

Hey bud, I'm a train enthusiast from co tyrone, my town had the last horse tram that linked my town, Fintona, to the line between omagh and enniskillen, obviously tyrone and fermanagh don't have any rail now. I inspect bridges for a living, I can assure you that 90% of railway infrastructure is still in place in these rural areas. However the longer its left, the more hassle it will be to reinstate the old lines. It's crazy that this isn't a priority in these areas. It's because we've gone so long without decent public transport we're used to it. Keep up the good fight man and if you need any maps, modern or historical give me a shout 👍

Belfast isn't the only city in the UK with these kind of issues, others include Leeds, Hull & Bristol.

Brilliant video! It stands great on its own though- I think I'd get more traction if you'd named the other two history of Belfast transport and just linked them as a card in this video. Why not build the light rail to Irish gauge and give it space for a mainline connection so it can have later tram-train connections or access maintenance facilities?

railways in ireland were some of the worst hit in europe when the motorways came along, but northern ireland got hit most, looking at old maps it probably had the densest rail network on the whole island but got horrifically stripped down far more so than even the republic's railways did. (and they're not in great shape either, but at least there isnt just a single track of line connecting two cities together) sadly the republic's government like the u.k's seems incapable of building any meaningful infrastructure outside of the capital but hopefully northern island being a bit more removed from london's reign can hopefully make a more independent push (and what's great unlike england the corridor's still exist with the imprint of where the railway used to be still very visible)

Finally! A green transit advocacy channel that is actually campaining to do stuff rather than just saying that this is possible and leaving it at that.

The first focus should be on dualling all mainlines, resignalling, electrification, linespeeds ideally 75 (120) to 100 (160) mph (km/h). Then reopening old mainlines to these standards, with sidings for passing local/freight trains as a bonus, which would allow for fast non-stopping services. I wonder if it could make sense to build any new lines to standard gauge, so that Ireland could have an easy link to Stranraer (Scotland) one day, working like the eurotunnel, except better, because if Ireland has standard gauge too, you could have both fast and local-stopping trains from Dublin/Derry/etc. to Glasgow. High speed rail Dublin to Belfast? Then finally, HS3 from Stranraer to Carlisle.

Great work, and best of luck, from a country where car-fanaticism is a religion (USA) Never EVER stop fighting for the connectivity of your country. Strong transit is true freedom!

Wishing you guys in Northern Ireland all the best. We on the mainland take our railways for granted, good on you for fighting for more rail access

My dad was born in Cullybackey and in 2011, when I was 13, he lost his life in a car accident in Portugal, where I live and was born. This event likely radicalised me against car dependency. It's good to see you fight for a railway I imagine he used in his youth. The railways really do connect people and their stories, eh? Big hug.

As someone from the mainland UK (Northern England) I hope this project goes through and best of luck with it. We also have many of the same issues of car-centric planning and infrastructure dominating our cities and towns, though we must contend with a lack of political will from Westminster to fund anything outside of London and SE.

Excellent work, keep it up.

I see your interest in good public transport is very similar to myself. I’m from rural Tipperary, so no trains. So I didn’t realise how interesting I found the operation of railways and trains until more recently. I found your channel as I had recently decided I must do something about it and I must say it’s nice to know there are like-minded people willing to push for reinstatement. Well done on what you’re doing, and here’s to a much larger rail network on the island in future!

Excellent video

Lots of potential for more sustainable transport in Ireland 👍

Can anyone explain why they had to repeatedly lock and unlock doors every time the border was crossed, regardless of the presence of intermediate stations? It seems very odd to me. Also was not the Common Travel Area in existence from 1923, so why would this be necessary?

Great video, when will the NINE be available to read?

Nice to see Belfast Central coming along nicely in the stock footage.

When will Part 2 be available to view?

Ay somehow Stillorgan mentioned

An suimiúil grma!!:)

Translink are a disgrace, and the bus service is a joke. In the evening time the busses are frequently cancelled (without any notification). 😒

A monument to thoughtless planning. The misnamed 'Central Station' is in the middle of an obscure district of Belfast well away from the City's central shopping and restaurant area.