Wakeful

Belfast City Council has agreed to partly fund a 2 year trail of a weekend night bus services beginning in November.

This will hugely benefit the night time economy and help people get out of the City Centre late at night. Delighted this is finally happening.

The yellow cheese-triangle-shaped Track Recording Vehicle leaves an almost-empty Bangor station with its swooping steel roof.

IÉ (Rhomberg Sersa) TRV EM50 departs from Bangor on the biannual survey of the NIR network (05/09/25).

#trains #NI #yellowmachines #Bangor

A smokey 217 approaches a leafy Kishoge, with its illuminated headlights shining against a shaded yellow front end, with a green and grey livery painted across the locomotive and all eight carriages.

Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail 201 Class loco no. 217 approaches Kishoge station on the Down Fast line with a Cork service (10/05/25).

#Rivers #IrishRail #Rail #Trains #Dublin #Cork #Kishoge

LNWR dark green-liveried 730234 stands at Platform 6 under the canopy at Crewe station.

Brand-new 730234 at Crewe, which I had from Liverpool South Parkway, before the next leg onwards to Derby for The Greatest Gathering (30/07/25).

#trains #Crewe #WCML #Railway200

A black and grey locomotive pulls the Enterprise under the grey footbridge at Moira station.

Irish Rail 201 Class loco no. 231 thunders through Moira station on an Enterprise service from Dublin Connolly to Belfast Grand Central (06/08/25).

#trains #Moira #railway #railway200

An Irish Rail 071 Class loco hauling a timber liner moves along a curved railway track through a grassy, rural landscape under a cloudy sky.

074 leads the timber liner round the bend at Manulla Junction yesterday morning (28/07/25).

#Mayo #trains #Ireland #IrishRail

A Class 4000 train arrives at Antrim railway station under a partly cloudy sky, with a platform, footbridge, and station sign visible.

NIR Class 4000 no. 4014 pulls into Antrim on the last day of Golf Week, with the 1505 ex-Portrush service through to Grand Central (20/07/25).

#trains #Antrim #TheOpen #NIR #Translink

This is what transport ambition looks like. And I'm all for it

Small stage and gazebo on grass with a speaker holding a microphone, people standing in the background

NIHRC condemns the recent racist acts across Northern Ireland as violations on the human rights of people within our communities.

Read the Chief Commissioner's comments at the recent Great Refugee Picnic: nihrc.org/news/detail/...

Enterprise De Dietrich set 9002 trails behind 231 through Whiteabbey station on a much-delayed second sander test run to Templepatrick loop last Thursday (03/07/25).

#Translink #NIRailways #NIR #Enterprise #IrishRail #IarnrodEireann #IE #Whiteabbey #Belfast @translinkni.bsky.social

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A mention for departing BBC NI continuity announcer/director David Olver at the end of tonight's BBC Newsline.

Leaving BBC NI after 47.5 years.

A special BBC One NI junction at 1.35am.

If you've got time, make the full journey down to Bangor!

The beef ragu onboard is fab!

A grey Class 201 locomotive numbered 228 with a purple and maroon swooping livery stands in the platform across from me, under overhead line electric wires, while another identical Class 201 numbered 206 stands about 100 away in front of an old red brick railway shed, all under a bright blue sky.

What's better than one Class 201? Two Class 201s!

228 idles in Dublin Connolly's Platform 2 ahead of the 1650 Belfast departure, whilst 206 lingers about in front of the shed (09/05/2025).

#Rivers #IrishRail #Rail #Trains #Enterprise @dsh43.bsky.social‬

Are you heading up to Norn Iron Railways metals this time, Will?

A blue and grey Class 3000 with a circular yellow front standing in Platform 3 at Lanyon Place, with a multistorey office block and a blue yet cloudy sky composing the backdrop.

NI Railways Class 3000 no. 3001 standing in Platform 3 at Lanyon Place. The line between here and Belfast Grand Central had not yet reopened to passenger rail traffic yet (09/10/2024).

#Translink #NIRailways #NIR #trains #rail @translinkni.bsky.social‬

An Enterprise liveried IÉ Class 201 locomotive number 228, with a semi-circular yellow front below a pair of black-bordered front cab windows, with a red, black, and violet striped livery on top of a grey body. The sky is dark with a little light remaining, with warm lighting from the green GNR(I) platform canopy.

Loco 228 looks ahead towards a green-lit signal down the platform.

Iarnród Éireann 201 Class loco no. 228, with the down road set, prepares to climb out of a damp and dark Dundalk towards Newry with the 1650 ex-Connolly, on Valentine's Day (14/02/2025).

#translink #dundalk #trains #railway #nir #irishrail #ireland #ie #enterprise #rail #201

A grey train with a yellow oval and red taillights idling in Newry's Platform 2. There are only two platforms, which are covered by grey canopies under an equally grey overcast sky. On the far platform is a blue-bordered sign with bold blue writing reading 'Newry', with a further sign below reading "for Bessbrook".

NIR Class 3000 no. 3010 idling ahead of the crew turn around at Newry Train Station. 3010 operated into Platform with the 1530 ex-Belfast Grand Central service, before returning to Portadown (14/02/2025).

#translink #newry #trains #railway #nir

Man in coat and flat cap stands smiling to someone off-camera; an electric train and platform is behind him. Courtesy Chris Cornell.

NEW BLOG POST!

Guest author @chris56cornell.bsky.social shares his Grandfather Charlie Cornell's life story.

A really significant story & so needing to be told in #Railway200 - a #Portsmouth railway worker of colour, c.1913-1966.

#CommunityRailWeek

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/charlie-corn...

Oh, wow!

York Street Train Station, with Graham contractor hoardings to the left foreground, with a path leading up to the copper-brown and slate clad building with green windows and Translink logo on the front.

Platform sign with text reads: "York Street - Platform 2. This platform for trains to Larne and Derry~Londonderry. For Ulster University, Belfast Campus."

Enterprise train passing though Platform 2 under brand-new platform canopies.

Scan of the front and back of a commemorative ticket issued to the public following the official opening of York Street station by the then-Minister of Infrastructure John O'Dowd.

York Street Train Station opened to the public on this day one year ago - where does the time go?

Here are some photos of mine from opening day and over the past year.

@translinkni.bsky.social @infrastructure-ni.gov.uk #trains #railways #northernireland #ni #translink #yorkstreet #belfast

A blue and grey NI Railways Class 4000 train stands brightly illuminated below a well-lit platform canopy and stunning blue and pink sky, reflected in the metal cladding of Belfast Grand Central Station's walls.

4008 having been turned around in Belfast Grand Central Platform 1, ahead of departing on the 20:35 to Bangor (15/04/25).

#translink #nir #nirailways #trains #railway #Bangor

Platform 6 has now opened at Cork Kent station

Be sure to check information displays as platform allocations may change from today onwards

Portlaoise, seven years apart.Same spot, shame angle, same type of train, same overgrown bush. Even the exact same loco. Only differences are the weather and 220’s paint job.

Keep the bridge (and refurb it) or demolish it? What are your thoughts, Jen? 🌉

Second photo looks like an xmas card! Greenland is somewhere I really ought to visit - will tune in and see how the Vance visit turns out...

A mustard yellow tamper train parked in a train siding with bushes and trees behind it in the background. The two sidings in front of the train have been recently relaid.

NI Railways's Compact Tamper no. DR 73925/7009 parked up in Maintenance Pit Siding at Lisburn station (14/02/2025).

13 March 1996 😢
And immediately the gun laws were changed. It never happened again. Are you listening America? Of course you’re not! Guns are more important than children, right? #Dunblane

Have you (re)done York Street in Belfast yet? 🚆