I can only guess here that you are travelling in first class - here in Manchester U.K., where I’ve lived for 23 years, I go home to my family in Rural Ireland on SailRail via Holyhead and Dublin on Irish Ferries, but starting off from Platforms 13 & 14 at Manchester Piccadilly and changing trains at Chester on cramped and overcrowded trains is a nightmare and there are some issues with getting from Dublin Port (North Wall) into Dublin City Centre despite the expansion of Dublin Port to take cruise ships and it’s close proximity to the M50 motorway and the Port Tunnel - in recent decades, they have stopped ferries into Dun Laoire Port which has a ready made DART line connection into Dublin Connolly, Greystones & Howth/Malahide, which connects both the Dublin Rosslare line and the Dublin Belfast line, however the Irish government has planned a massive rail investment programme for the Irish railways managed by Iarnod Éireann (Irish Rail) - one of these is to extend the Dublin Docklands to M3 Parkway line to Navan in the next few years, so hopefully this should make for a much more civilised way to travel around Ireland by train 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧❤️🙏
![South Western Railway Journey (Portsmouth & Southsea - London Waterloo) [1st class]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lbPJFwvnUoQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![South Western Railway Journey (Portsmouth & Southsea - London Waterloo) [1st class]](/img/tr.png)
I can only guess here that you are travelling in first class - here in Manchester U.K., where I’ve lived for 23 years, I go home to my family in Rural Ireland on SailRail via Holyhead and Dublin on Irish Ferries, but starting off from Platforms 13 & 14 at Manchester Piccadilly and changing trains at Chester on cramped and overcrowded trains is a nightmare and there are some issues with getting from Dublin Port (North Wall) into Dublin City Centre despite the expansion of Dublin Port to take cruise ships and it’s close proximity to the M50 motorway and the Port Tunnel - in recent decades, they have stopped ferries into Dun Laoire Port which has a ready made DART line connection into Dublin Connolly, Greystones & Howth/Malahide, which connects both the Dublin Rosslare line and the Dublin Belfast line, however the Irish government has planned a massive rail investment programme for the Irish railways managed by Iarnod Éireann (Irish Rail) - one of these is to extend the Dublin Docklands to M3 Parkway line to Navan in the next few years, so hopefully this should make for a much more civilised way to travel around Ireland by train 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧❤️🙏
SWR