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Dublin to Belfast Trains to resume on 13 October

Posted by (Lake District, England) on

Belfast Grand Central Railway Station will open to passengers on 13 October so trains from Dublin to Belfast will resume from that date.

Although yet to be confirmed services should go on to an hourly frequency from that date. Northern Ireland Railways are providing one train set for the service- the journeys on that train set will not convey catering or 1st class.

The first train of the day from Dublin at 0550 will now arrive in Belfast at 8am, with a last train back at 9pm arriving in Dublin at 11.13 pm.

Some of the Irish Rail services will be run by their Inter City railcars, not Enterprise stock- but will still have 1st class and catering.

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What's the best way to stay up to speed on the opening of Grand Central and if the train service between Dublin and Belfast has resumed? I have found essentially no news on IrishRail or Northern Ireland Railways. Very frustrating so far, so I am VERY grateful for your post here!

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The Irish rail website has news pages which should be kept up to date, and I expect Translink will make a lot of noise on their site.
I actually heard through the Translink Facebook page.
There was an approved hourly timetable. However live testing in the last few weeks has shown that it has a lack of resilience in also handling the Dub!in North commuter traffic into Connolly. Basically the line is now too busy.
So the Enterprise TT and the Commuter TT is having to be tweaked to make it work better.

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Update - just seen a Translink Facebook post of 18 hours ago. Correct timetables for across the province and for the Enterprise are now in the Translink system, with the Sunday opening now totally confirmed.

Posted by
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Grand Central station which is already open for bus services will start having train services run into it including cross border services from Dublin as from this sunday 13th October :) (www.translink.co.uk) Translink are the public transport company in Northern Ireland

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