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Should make a video on how poorly Lisburn travellers have been treated too. Have to change for the Bangor line or City Hospital. Dublin train doesn’t stop in Lisburn. So you can kiss goodbye to Knockmore opening again thanks to the costs attached to the Grand central white elephant. Great videos by the way, really enjoying them.

Wouldn't this be competing with heavy rail, as it doesn't take long to get from Belfast Central to Titanic station? Then you walk or could take a bicycle or electric scooter.

7:52 what about the line from Bangor to the uk

Really nice video! I am looking forward to your video on the 3k and 4k CAF stock as I'd love to learn a bit more about them. Also, what do you call the music you use for your intro? I heard it on a Translink video once but im still looking for a full length version.

20:00. Call of Duty All Ghillied Up mission intro music in background

Now that Grand Central Station is fully operational, I would like to make some ammendments to this video almost two years on: 1. The overall canopy of Grand Central Station was cut back by 2/3s to reduce cost and comply with over-reaching climate policy(ies). 2. The Enterprise and Goldline Lounges never made it beyond the design phase, neither of them were built. 3. The construction process ended up being different than both of my predictions in different ways, but as of now, the Durham Street (Boyne) Bridge is due to be raised in the coming weeks, with the remainder of the public realm works extending into the middle of 2025. Hopefully the next biggest video on this channel is on how the International Airport Station will operate! #RebuildOurRailways

Those old locomotives look so nice, I wish Hornby would give us some love.

I wish I could volunteer but I'm 16 and I live in the UK and only come over ounce or twice a year

Great documentary. Loved working on the 80s Rip Noel Playfair a great railwayman and workmate a gentleman

Drove my first of these back in 1988. Some had trouble getting up Craigavad bank in Autumn, sometimes spinning on the spot and not moving haha, that said you didn't have any worries of slide through during leaf fall, which came later with their electronic follow ups.

Personally I think it’s a pity the old bridge had to go - not because of its name in relation to the battle of the Boyne but because it was the last remaining structure to be associated with the Great Victoria Street station. It’s 1930s art deco style was a part of the history of the much older station, having spanned the old tracks and platforms of the Victorian station. Sadly we have lost so much of our built railway heritage which can never be replaced. That is “progress” we are told.

Never got to travel on the trams but did get on the trolley bus in 1968 just before the end

I know Irish gauge is wider but some of the photos suggest that the rolling stock has been squashed flat…ridiculous!

Old railcars never die! In the US,there are still Budd RDC's in revenue service,and many 1930's and 40's,diesel electric conversions,from gas-electric railcars preserved! Sperry still has railcars,from many railroads operating in maintenance of trackage service,which means,they are ubiquitous in the country! Thank you,and the US railroads could learn a few things on passenger services,and recycling old equipment! Thank you! Thank you 😇 😊!

Brilliant video. Many thanks.

Fantastic video, it’s definitely pushed me to look at membership from afar and to donate to help keep the 80 Class thumping.

Have a couple of these videos gone, i thought i remember more than part 1 and part 2? Remember seeing in something about stop closer to city airport and one closer to odyssey?

Great to see the 80 class again. I remember them on the Bangor line and being let into the engine room whilst the engine was running. The trailers were all built with intermediate doors but with bomb damage and age, some mainline Mk2 carriages (built w/o intermediate doors) were converted to replace the trailers. UTA/NIR experience with the MPD sets led to trying DEMUs for the 70 class then 80 class as the bus engine/gearboxes of the earlier trains were not so reliable.

caf are okay there dmus i think are quite smelly in terms of that they smell of diesel fuel inside them

Amazing video. Hopefully i will see the restored class 80 someday.

This is fabulous. Subscribed.

Excellent video and very interesting story. Thank you.

Thank you for the video showing the history and excellent work bring done on a class of train I knew well from 1984 when I first visited Belfast. I was lucky enough to ride and photograph them all over the north, but also in Cork, Bray and Dublin when on lease to Irish Rail. They were once taken for granted, but now are remembered as a unique train set worth preserving.

The fall of the Derry Road was a disgrace that will remain a stain on Stormont's history. I've seen several comments to the effect that had that key line lasted another year, it would still be with us. Roll on reinstatement ... not forgetting Enniskillen!! Could you please do something on the Belfast & County Down? The precipitate closure of everything barring the Bangor line always struck me as odd, but I know a LOT less about that than the missing majority of the old GNRI network.

Wonderful documentary .... thank you. I was lucky enough to track down a copy of Colm Flanagan's book "Diesel Dawn" (pub Courpoint 2003), which covers Ireland's DMU development between 1931 and 1967, in which the GNRI featured particularly prominently, so this tale of 3rd gen IC is a great next chapter (I originally said "continuation", but there's no real direct lineage connecting the 70/80 classes and the modern CAF kit.

Great video

The 80 class is to NI what the double-decker is to London. I loved the sliding windows and manual door handles, built to last. It's mad to think that the modern trains are now 20 years old.

Finally my town Downpatrick is getting attention.

Great documentary!!! Not much coverage documentary wise on trains in Northern Ireland. So this was really great to watch!!

Lived right beside the railway line at Whiteabbey, that noise at 16:52, soundtrack of my life lol, great Doc.

If I've heard correctly, the reason the UTA went for the EE powered class 70's DEMU's was because the manager at the time came from British Rail Southern Region, which had used the configuration of an EE 4SRKT engine using the same traction motors as the SR EMU's, instead of the Class 101 diesel hydraulic type.

Park and ride from Carryduff with access from both roads (Newcastle and Downpatrick) into Belfast city centre. Only problem is the bus lane on upper Ormagh Rd which can’t be used because cars and vans park on the bus lane.

Fantastic documentary. It was a pleasure to be part of making of it by providing some footage. The 80 Class started my love for the railway i've plenty of fine memories of them over the years and without a doubt the 80 Class was one of the most comfortable trains to travel on.

Came over on the boat train from Greenock to my Granny's in Belfast (aka Beirut) in the 70s-early 80s for my school holidays and I loved these trains as ours were boring electric trains with electric doors though remember once getting the last train from Larne that had every window smashed in so was basically an open cattle truck.

Excellent video. Some good older footage and very good to hear of the restoration efforts. Most enjoyable.

I have a weird tendency of watching these on the train, and the exact area that I’m at ends up showing up during the video

5:45 lol

This was very interesting, even if I wished you went a bit more in depth on their history and the interesting stories surrounding some particular units. * For example, the Class leader, No. 67 was involved in the Downhill derailment on Tuesday the 4th of June 2002. * No. 97 Glenshesk having his engine damaged in 2009 yet survived as an unpowered Sandite unit until 2017. * Another unit is preserved in England over in the East Lancashire Railway, that being the youngest one, No. 99 Sir Myles Humphrey, which has been regauged to standard gauge and is used as a spare carriage. At least we got to know some useful information on their new life in preservation. You should do more of these history videos on other Northern Irish classes.

Thanks for this video! Very well made and informative. I’ll have to call in to DCDR

Was always preferable to see an 80 turn up rather than a 450! I recall the reliability of the C3Ks was horrific when they were first introduced. A mole within one of CAFs subcontractors told me that, in addition to NIR introducing an overly-ambitious timetable at the same time, NIR had asked for so many changes from CAFs suggested specs (IIRC, engines, exhausts) and the track back then, particularly on the Derry line, was on such poor condition that the poor things more or less shook themselves to pieces. Fortunately, it seems they may have learned their lesson when it came to the C4Ks...

Well done! This is an incredible documentary and was worth the wait. I only got to ride on the 80 class a couple of times in my life. They had a lot of character for sure!

Its all one big conspiracy for a united ireland...so it is !!

Need to work on your pronunciation.. You have slaughtered some of the place names

I’m recommending this video to the people at Translink and the Belfast city council.