Author: ewan.duffy

The Irish News reports on a proposed masterplan for Belfast City Airport, which apparently wants to have a railway station on the adjacent railway line to Bangor.

But not this one for some reason:

Personally, I can’t see Translink building a new station when Sydenham is already on the airport’s doorstep. If money were no object, there would be an argument to close Sydenham and build a new station further east as well as re-opening Victoria Park. However, the Cost Benefit Analysis of such a proposal would be negative.

Due to a fire under the bridge carrying the LUAS Red line at George’s Dock, there are no trams running between Busaras and The Point, with the authorities advising that the George’s Dock bridge will need to be demolished and rebuilt.

As a result of this, there is a replacement bus in operation between the Point and Amiens Street, using former London Transport buses, complete with roundel logo.

This makes for a interesting juxtaposition of LT roundel and LUAS branding on buses in Dublin

The Belfast Telegraph reports on the restoration of an in situ ‘isolation pillar’ which was part of the tram network in Belfast. These allowed engineers to isolate part of the network for maintenance whilst keeping the rest of the network running.

The box is located on Linenhall Street and has both the city coat of arms and “BTH” for “British Thompson Houston”, cast into it.