Thursday, August 11, 2022

By Gráinne Ní Aodha, PA
Photography exhibitions are being launched at two train stations to mark the 75th anniversary of the flagship Belfast-Dublin Enterprise train service.
In 1947, at 10.30am on August 11th, a seven-carriage steam train left Belfast and headed to Dublin, bringing about a new era in cross-border travel.
The cross-border railway service would feature in the island’s history: including being the subject of bomb threats during the Troubles, leading to the establishment of the Peace Train Organisation in 1989; and the ‘Contraceptive Train’ event organised by the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement in May 1971.