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TAR 22 EP 11 (Belfast) "Beacon of Hope"
Mattjimf:
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--- Quote from: Mattjimf on April 29, 2013, 04:57:02 AM ---Caps 1-6 are of the following part of the railway - the bridge being built is part of the tramway out to the airport:
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Good spotting. What do you spec on destination? Is there access to the Edinburgh Airport through the train stop in Edinburgh Park? Or are they on their way to Glasgow, Stanraer and Belfast?
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I think that it's just a shot of a train, if they were on it, they would be heading up over the Forth Rail Bridge and onto Dundee, which is the opposite direction for Belfast.
There is no train station at the airport and unless they are going to do something at the bridge, I can't see why they would be going that way.
Mattjimf:
Only 6 flights out of Edinburgh to Belfast:
To Belfast International:
BFS Belfast U2 482 easyJet 7:00 AM 6:55 AM Landed On-time 319
BFS Belfast U2 488 easyJet 4:30 PM 4:23 PM Landed On-time 319
BFS Belfast U2 492 easyJet 9:05 PM 9:03 PM Landed On-time 319
To Belfast City:
BHD Belfast BE 682 FlyBE 7:10 AM 7:34 AM Landed On-time DH4
BHD Belfast BE 688 FlyBE 3:25 PM 3:31 PM Landed On-time DH4
BHD Belfast BE 690 FlyBE 6:30 PM 7:32 PM Landed 49 min DH4
georgiapeach:
If it is in the caps, it is there for a REASON. We see a train? Great! Where is it going?
Are we being told to look at trains/ferries instead of planes in order to get Edinburgh>Belfast?
apskip:
Peach,
Information on ferries and connections to them has already been developed in the Transportation thread, as has the flight possibilities. It was done weeks ago.
DrRox:
I looked at Scottish Rail schedules. They have 3 departures a day from Edinburgh>Belfast via Glascow/Stanraer. One at ~6:00 am and another at 10:00 am and one at night. Travel time is around 7+ hours.
I suspect that shot of the train is stock footage, but as Peach said, they dont show a train unless teams take a train. It is a waste of available program time otherwise. There are two mainlines from Edinburgh to Glasgow.......one this train is on (northern route) that goes to Glasgow Oueen St Station and another one (southern route) that branches off at Haymarket and goes to Glasgow Central. The connection to Stanraer (ferry port) is from Glasgow Central. but the two Glasgow stations are only about 5-6 blocks apart.
In the screencap that Mattjimf posted, you can see the junction where the tracks split........the right to Dundee and the left to Edinburgh Park and Glasgow. That route is not the most optimal. The better route is the southern route that splits at Haymarket station.
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