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Originally Posted by sean
One way Cork-Belfast could be done is like this:
PPT reopened.
Cork-Dublin trains rerouted to Connolly.
Dublin-Belfast trains rescheduled to meet with Cork trains in the other direction, i.e. Dublin-Belfast train scheduled to depart 5 minutes after the arrival of an inbound Cork train, and vice-versa.
This not only simplifies things for Cork-Belfast passengers, but also opens the way for wider travel patterns like Mallow-Dundalk, Limerick-Newry etc.
This could be followed up with some new platforms at Heuston to allow PPT trains to stop at Heuston and two sets of travelators (sorry if this sounds too Metrobestish)
One at Connolly carring passengers down to Spencer Dock (Interconnector) station, and another wherever Park Tunnel routed trains can be stopped, to the Heuston Interconnector station.
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Hey Sean, would that not be just the same thing as having one train if you had the two trains to meet at the same time. What happens if the Belfast one is delayed. I can see the point about having too many stops on a Belfast - Cork, would make the Trans Siberian look like a commuter train.
If the travelator worked for Heuston be a good idea, not sure about docklands though, there's a fair distance from Connolly to Docklands and as the crow flies it via housing estates. Maybe a walkway alongside the track out of docklands and then up towards the back of connolly might work.