Titanic Belfast and Belfast City Day Tour

Depart from Dublin to Belfast

Check in for 07:35 departure from Connolly Station, which was built in 1844 as the terminus of the Dublin & Drogheda Railway and is now the administrative headquarters of Iarnród Éireann, Ireland’s National Railway.

The train will depart northwards through the Dublin suburbs, which soon gives way to farmland. It will pass the exclusive coastal village of Malahide before crossing the wide Broadmeadow Estuary, followed by Rogerstown Estuary. Fine views of the sea appear as your train passes through the coastal town of Skerries, followed by the fishing village of Balbriggan. A few kilometres further on will be Gormanston, an Irish Air Corps military airfield – on the landward side. Red flags on the seaward side indicate military exercises are in progress.

You will travel through Drogheda. Immediately north of Drogheda, you will cross the historic river Boyne by a magnificent viaduct, with great views of the town. It was here that Oliver Cromwell put the entire population to the sword in 1649. At little further upstream is the site of the Battle of the Boyne, where [Protestant] King William of Orange defeated dethroned [Catholic] King James in 1690 – an event which is still celebrated annually by ‘Orangemen’ or ‘Northern Protestants’ on the ‘Twelfth’ of July. Soon the train will begin to climb into the foothills of the Camlough Mountains and border country.