Dublin to Belfast train link expanded to hourly service

Passengers disembarking at Connolly Station in Dublin from the Dublin/Belfast Enterprise rail link. Picture: David Young/PA

Trains between Dublin and Belfast are to move to an hourly service from Tuesday in what has been described as the most significant expansion of services on the cross-border route in more than a quarter of a century.

Fifteen services will operate daily in each direction between Belfast’s new Grand Central Station and Dublin’s Connolly Station from Mondays to Saturdays, up from eight each way previously.