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by nephihaha
25 days ago
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NI gets very messy! They had so many lines once and between the Troubles and cuts, they lost many of them. (The cross-border canal system was even more neglected.) The NI trains run on a different gauge from here (this came up yesterday when someone was talking about the possibility of a train between Scotland and there. The train to Dublin is way slower than it should be. The trains within the Republic tend to be much better. That said, Letterkenny's most logical rail connection would be to Derry just due to the lay of the land. |
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There is, FWIW, a plan to improve that (https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/06/22/funding-to-cut...), though mostly on the Republic side of the border.
(The Rail 2050 plan plans to bring it dow further to 90 minutes, and up the frequency to once every 30 mins from once an hour, but that's fairly speculative at this point.)