Your daily reminder that #Derry & West of the Bann have suffered blatant discrimination when it comes to rail timetabling for the last 7yrs (see below), & Minister Liz Kimmins is refusing to allocate the relatively paltry £1m needed to finally bring this injustice to an end🤷‍♂️ @deptinfra.bsky.social

With 10's of thousands of people frm #Donegal descending upon Dublin today for #AllIrelandFootballFinal, it's important to acknowledge the complete absence of suitable public transport from the county to get them there. It's high time that Donegal got its railway back again 🟢🟡👍 #LetterkennyDerryRail

Today marks 75th anniversary of #Limavady losing its railway. A century of connectivity erased in an instance. Limavady would be the easiest, quickest & cheapest rail reopening on the island - & we're campaigning to see it happen👍 Hear us speak at #Stendhal this Sunday ('Stage the Change' @ 3:45pm)

RAIL PERFORMANCE IN NI 2023-24
An analysis of demand for rail in NI 2023-24. Key points:
- 26.5m journeys (+26% vs PY)
- Demand still recovering aftr Covid (-1.3% vs pre-pandemic).
- Big variance in regional performance vs pre-Covid. Derry booming, Belfast struggling.
- WFH changing travel pattrns?

** LINE CLOSURE OVER EASTER **
The section of Derry-Belfast line between Antrim & Coleraine will be closed Good Friday (18th April) & Easter Saturday (19th) for essential engineering works.

Trains will run between Derry & Coleraine as normal, with bus substitutions onwards from Coleraine to Antrim.

We had a very constructiv meeting with NI Infrastructur Minister Liz Kimmins today at Stormont. Items discussd=
1) Huge growth in Derry rail demand
2) Timetable discrimination against West of Bann
3) Reopening Lettrkenny-Derry-Portadwn
4) Phase 3 track works.
We're very grateful to Liz for her time

** RAIL LINE CLOSED THIS WEEKEND **
A reminder that the Derry-Belfast rail line is closed on Sat 29th & Sun 30th March for engineering works. Details on bus replacement services are below.

** MEETING WITH DONEGAL TDs - Tues 11th March 2025 **
We'd an extremely helpful meeting yesterday with #Donegal TDs @pearsedoherty.bsky.social & @padraigmacl.bsky.social about bringing rail back to Letterkenny & Donegal. We're very grateful for their time & engagement with us on this important issue

Have you seen our banners near the bus station in #Letterkenny? 🙂 If you'd like to help us install more around #Donegal, please consider donating here = intothewest.org/donate.
Each banner costs £50, but any donation will be used to help push the message that Donegal Needs Rail !

#DonegalNeedsRail

Your map also portrays NI's second city as if it's an unimportant spur off of Coleraine, which is a quarter of its size. Merely on a par with Portrush & it'spopulation of 6,000. You'll find that this sort of stuff does not go down at all well in the North-West.

Sorry - don't buy that at all. As the below map shows, it is possible to portray the network in a geographically accurate way. If they can do it with the vast & intricate rail map of Britain, evn with London's spaghetti soup of lines, thn it can be done for NI's basic system & it's handful of lines👍🏻

Sorry - but any graphic which completely ignores geographical reality to instead place Belfast at the centre of the transport universe isn't one that we can get behind. Below is a more accurate representation 👇🏼 There is life beyond Belfast 😳

PLEASE NOTE : Due to impending Storm Éowyn, @translink.bsky.social have announced that there will be NO TRAINS operating in NI tomorrow (Friday) morning 👇🏼

#Tyrone

#Fermanagh