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Over to Northern Ireland in 25 minutes?


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Aberdeen - Scotland 3rd biggest city

Inverness - Scotland 5th biggest city

Scotrail / Network rail are currently running a 3 year programme to  double track parts of the journey, not it all but just parts. For the remaining single track sections they will improve signalling to the point where the Victorian system of drivers haing to stop trains at signal boxes to collect tokens, that they hand in at the next signal box. Also they are introducing new trains that are in fact ancient refurbished Intercity 125 trains.

And that work is progressing quicker than the the dualling of the A96 between the cities which should be finished about never.

Let's get the internal links right first,

 

This has all the images of Scotland's HS2, a ridiculous waste of money and as much a Govt vanity exercise to Holyrood as HS2 is to Westminster

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2 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:

So Beaufort's Dyke - 50km long, 3km wide, 300m deep, filled with one million tonnes of unexploded bombs - and the politicians want to build a bridge over it? Pure fantasy.

It wouldn't go over Beaufort's Dyke. It would be Antrim to Mull of Kintyre.

The problem with building a bridge to Cambpelltown is that if you need two other bridges to and from Arran and a 4 lane motorway through the island to make this even approaching being of any use to anyone.

Belfast - Ballycastle - Campbelltown - Glasgow would be 6 hours on mostly terrible roads so make it 9 hours in caravan up the A82 season.

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2 hours ago, Bobby Skidmarks said:

What happened to VikingTons post about spending the money on towing Northern Ireland into the sea as far away from here as possible? 

 

 

That was Alf Garnett.

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