Railway proposals and Dublin comments

Having to catch ferry’s and not planes is why no one voted for the 2023 Irish World Cup bid.

Fool me once etc etc. Build the northern powerhouse connections/line first then connect south. Not the other way round.

Agree, it has to be 21st century infrastructure and does not necessarily have to include London. The northern powerhouse should be just that, northern and forward thinking for itself.

Because you remember Boris Johnson's ridiculous plan to build a bridge across the Irish Sea?

Maybe a Thunderbirds episodes. The engineering challenges alone are mind boggling, let alone the sheer cost. And the fact of building it over a trench filled with a million tonnes of explosives and radioactive waste.

Those are two of the most notoriously difficult bits of sea in the whole world to build in. Never mind the unexploded bombs, the currents alone would rip a structure like that to pieces.

The Fixed Link Technical Feasibility report put the cost of a tunnel from Bangor to Stranraer at £77-£209 billion and a bridge on the same route at £124-335 billion - so we're talking the cost of between 1 to 5 London to Manchester HS2s just to cross the Irish Sea once

Remember the Millennium Dome.

I unironically love this whole idea. If it existed, it would be a marvel and transform the north. But, I can't even conceive of how many billions it would cost. Just the bits where it dances blithely across the Irish Sea *twice* "requiring either tunnelling or bridges"... wow.

Look, if the Irish government stubbornly refuse to build an underground railway in Dublin it might be our only hope

And they always, somehow, forget about Beaufort's Dyke. Beaufort's Dyke - Wikipedia share.google/baRO9gDQ6uTz...

An adaptation of the Royal Mail mailbag train catcher and drop for passengers solves that problem..... Dublin.... 🤣

The sensible one is the map of the Elizabeth line plonked on a map of the north, running from Liverpool to hull.

Trying to decide what will annoy people most - describing Dublin as ‘a British city’, or a proposal to build a high speed railway line right through Sunderland and Middlesbrough without stopping at either.