Enterprise

Ireland commits to funding Enterprise replacement from 2027 – what about NI?

Andy Boal on October 5, 2021, 1:22 pm | Readers 2151

The Irish National Development Plan is a long document, and I have had little time to do more than skim it, but the key headline spotted by Jonny McCambridge and noted by Mick, one of the concrete proposals in the plan, is the replacement for the Belfast-Dublin Enterprise service by 2027. The branded Enterprise service was introduced by the Great Northern Railway in 1947, and at one time was extended to Cork. NIR relaunched its side of the service in …

New Belfast-Dublin Enterprise timetable proposed from 21 Jan 2016: earlier start, longer journeys

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on December 4, 2015, 4:19 pm | Readers 3850

ENTERPRISE TIMETABLE from January 31st proposes a new 06:15 service leaving Belfast Central and arriving in Dublin Connolly at 08:41. However the last service to Dublin on a weekday evening will leave Belfast at 20:05. A certain times, the bus is faster than the train!

Increasing numbers of passengers let the train take the strain … apart from a 10 year decline on the Enterprise

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 14, 2013, 8:15 am | Readers 789

Monday morning’s Belfast Telegraph splashed with the front page story that passengers numbers have fallen by 22% on the Belfast-Dublin Enterprise train over the last decade. The ‘exclusive’ – based on figures in DRD’s Future Railways Investment consultation document [pdf] that was published in January – was picked up by Talkback at lunchtime as well as other news programmes. The actual consultation ended in April, though this isn’t mentioned in the paper! And in some ways, it’s never too late …