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Well, I do like to keep you all in the loop... In any case, I just wanted to  let you all know that another future series I'm planning on pulling together (post COVID) will be about transport futures across Britain (and perhaps further afield), focusing on things that need to change and how bright a future we could have, if only we made some changes and spent some money.

The plan is for me to visit places, talk about transport problems, talk about solutions, create some maps, talk about actual costs of the solutions, and think about how that would fit into the wider transport picture. Plus local guests.

It'll be called: #RailwayFutures

Thoughts? Stick 'em below!

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Brian Condron

I'd be interested in a politics aside thought experiment looking at what exactly would be required to making a connection between Northern Ireland and Scotland viable. Assuming a rail tunnel was built and open between Portpatrick and Whitehead today, what supporting infrastructure would be required to actually make it work. High speed rail from Glasgow / Edinburgh to Belfast (around 260km total distance, around 40km in tunnel), onward connections to England and Rep. Ireland. The problem with the different rail gauge on the island of Ireland requiring a brand new standard gauge line (Belfast to Dublin is 160km). About 12 million air passengers a year travel between Rep Ireland and the UK by air, of those 5 million travel between Dublin and London. A further 2.3 million travel by ferry. About 6 million fly per year between Northern Ireland and Britain. Viable numbers for a fixed link?