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Belfast-Dublin trains off over Easter weekend

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Trains will not run between Belfast and Dublin over the Easter bank holiday weekend with bus substitution services being provided instead due to engineering works.

The change is due to planned works between Dublin and Lisburn on both sides of the border.

The bus substitutions will be in place on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and will operate between Dublin Connolly, Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry and Belfast Grand Central Station.

A new hourly Enterprise service between Belfast and Dublin began on 29 October, but the bus substitutions will not run to the same hourly schedule.

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During regular operations, the new hourly Enterprise service sees 15 services operate in each direction between Belfast and Dublin from Mondays to Saturdays and eight services each way on Sundays.

Getting from Belfast to Dublin over Easter

The full details on the bus substitutions schedule and the planned disruption are available on Irish Rail's website and Translink's website.

For passengers using the Portadown Line, rail services will operate between Belfast Grand Central and Lisburn between Saturday and Monday. A bus substitution service will operation between Lisburn and Portadown.

A line closure will also impact the Belfast-Londonderry line on Friday and Saturday.

Bus substitution services will operate between Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney and Coleraine. A shuttle service will operate between Cullybackey and Ballymena.