Suzanne Harrington: We need to make trains sexy again

It used to be that air travel was glamorous and train travel romantic. Now air travel is Ryanair and in Ireland, train travel has largely been concreted over. 

We need to re-romanticise trains for the 21st century, making them efficient, swift, desirable.

My chap and I are in different places. Geographically I mean – this isn’t about couples counselling. He lives in the capital, I live on the coast, with sixty miles of rolling green countryside and sprawling city suburbs between us.

When we want to see each other, I get on a train to the city, or he gets in his car to the coast.