I would wholeheartedly agree that the Irish mail route would be the best. First of all, it’s probably the closest to a straight line between Dublin and London. Secondly, you can route trains onto both HS2 and NPR, and with a connection between HS1 and HS2 in London you could run Dublin to Paris trains. The LNWR actually had a station in Dublin called North Wall, which the ferry from Holyhead would serve, and you could get a train from there onto the rest of the rail network. I don’t think the Tuskar route is that useful, because it’s so far south in both countries. Wexford also isn’t a very highly populated area. Rosslare Port is probably best to be left for ferries directly to France.
HS3 going all the way to Dublin? Not a bad idea. With Services going Dublin-Liverpool-London as well, of course. And some of those also extending to Belfast if/when the rail gauge up to Belfast is changed to Standard. Sure, might not be the easiest crossing to build, but would be very useful.
If you want to cut London - Dublin flights then the Tuskar or Irish mail routes are by far the best. If anything building both the Tuskar and Galloway routes then linking them up with an Irish high speed route would be even better
I like this idea. I suspect Ireland would want a east coast high speed line from Cork to Belfast anyway, so linking (more or less) either end to Glasgow and Cardiff would be sensible. The Irish Mail route would probably make sense as a later-built third crossing connecting a corridor leading to Merseyside, Manchester, Leeds. Could even be an extension of HS3 (if that hadn't been cancelled...). Edited to correct to east coast.
Were a Unified Ireland and Scotland to be in the EU, it might make economic sense for them (and the EU) to fund it themselves. Would provide a solid link between the Common Market.
Is there a case to be made to build a crossing with segregated freight and passenger lines (so 4 lines, two each way in total) to increase capacity? A rail freight link with Ireland would be the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to move most goods, so the capacity should be maximised. Obviously the cost would be higher, but it kind of "future proofs" the design as demand increases.
Kintore's own website claims the name is etymologically Gaelic. That whole area was part of the Pictish bits that got integrated into Gaelic culture, before the Gaelic kingdom pushed south and got Anglianised from the inside.
@@ApemanMonkey I saw it on a program and thought I would point that out because this video states that the channel tunnel is the longest underwater tunnel in the world. That is no longer the case.
@@ApemanMonkey Sorry, I was mistaken, channel tunnel is still the longest. This tunnel will overtake it - www.theb1m.com/video/progress-on-worlds-deepest-and-longest-undersea-tunnel
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I would wholeheartedly agree that the Irish mail route would be the best.
First of all, it’s probably the closest to a straight line between Dublin and London.
Secondly, you can route trains onto both HS2 and NPR, and with a connection between HS1 and HS2 in London you could run Dublin to Paris trains.
The LNWR actually had a station in Dublin called North Wall, which the ferry from Holyhead would serve, and you could get a train from there onto the rest of the rail network.
I don’t think the Tuskar route is that useful, because it’s so far south in both countries. Wexford also isn’t a very highly populated area. Rosslare Port is probably best to be left for ferries directly to France.
The Irish Mail route would probably actually make the Dublin/Liverpool/Mcr/Leeds/Hull corridor a proper economic challenger to that London.
HS3 going all the way to Dublin? Not a bad idea. With Services going Dublin-Liverpool-London as well, of course. And some of those also extending to Belfast if/when the rail gauge up to Belfast is changed to Standard. Sure, might not be the easiest crossing to build, but would be very useful.
If you want to cut London - Dublin flights then the Tuskar or Irish mail routes are by far the best.
If anything building both the Tuskar and Galloway routes then linking them up with an Irish high speed route would be even better
I like this idea. I suspect Ireland would want a east coast high speed line from Cork to Belfast anyway, so linking (more or less) either end to Glasgow and Cardiff would be sensible.
The Irish Mail route would probably make sense as a later-built third crossing connecting a corridor leading to Merseyside, Manchester, Leeds. Could even be an extension of HS3 (if that hadn't been cancelled...).
Edited to correct to east coast.
The Belfast rule is silly, if you are being fsir you should add a Dublin connection to the Northern Routes
Would this be a case of the English paying for a rail link between an independent Scotland and a unified Ireland?
Now that would be nice!
Were a Unified Ireland and Scotland to be in the EU, it might make economic sense for them (and the EU) to fund it themselves. Would provide a solid link between the Common Market.
Is there a case to be made to build a crossing with segregated freight and passenger lines (so 4 lines, two each way in total) to increase capacity? A rail freight link with Ireland would be the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to move most goods, so the capacity should be maximised. Obviously the cost would be higher, but it kind of "future proofs" the design as demand increases.
29:20 second from right looks like Nick "The Chieftain" Moran.
Kintore's own website claims the name is etymologically Gaelic. That whole area was part of the Pictish bits that got integrated into Gaelic culture, before the Gaelic kingdom pushed south and got Anglianised from the inside.
This all begs the questions of bathymetric and geotechnical analyses of the potential route.
You should really just timetable railnatter for 90 minutes.
Tuskar would require upgrades around the east of Bristol....
...and through south Wales!
I thought the Bosporus rail tunnel in Istanbul was now the longest underwater tunnel in the world?
What did you base this thought on?
@@ApemanMonkey I saw it on a program and thought I would point that out because this video states that the channel tunnel is the longest underwater tunnel in the world. That is no longer the case.
@@matthewchamberlain391 you said you aren't sure, though. Can you link to a source?
@@ApemanMonkey Sorry, I was mistaken, channel tunnel is still the longest. This tunnel will overtake it - www.theb1m.com/video/progress-on-worlds-deepest-and-longest-undersea-tunnel
@@matthewchamberlain391 actuallly no. its going to be the longest ROAD tunnel. its about half the length of the channel tunnel