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Sail/Rail Dublin-Glasgow via Belfast?

  • 22-03-2010 02:53PM
    #1
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭


    Hello, does anyone here know if you can get a sail/rail ticket from Dublin to Glasgow via Belfast port? StenaLine's site of course only has Dublin-Holyhead and then up to Glasgow from there which is too inefficent for me. Dublin to Belfast and then Belfast to Stranraer and from there on to Glasgow would make more sense but I don't know if there's any agency that does this ticket.

    Any help/advice?
    Appreciate any info.


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  • #2
    kingofburt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭kingofburt


    Citylink http://www.citylink.co.uk/index.php are probably your best option, I know that you can but 1 ticket from Dublin but I can't find the current timetable. If it comes to it just get a bus to Belfast and use the Citylink service from there, its run in conjunction with Ulsterbus and is a very good value way of getting to Scotland.

    Feda O'Donnell also goes but it looks like his last pick up is in Derry. http://www.fedaodonnell.com/

    I wouldn't bother with trains in scotland, any time I've tried to look into it the connections were rubbish as you have to change a few times, either waiting 1 minute or hours so not worth the hassle.


  • #3
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    Thanks but I was looking to get the ticket all in one. I've done the Eurolines thing with Bus Eireann via Belfast and it's about 70 return. Trying to buy tickets at each stage of the journey leaves me open to problems. I can't buy any UK tickets as I've no credit card and laser's as useful as tits on a bull so my only option is to buy a full ticket to the final destination from Dublin otherwise I could end up getting stuck in Belfast if the bus/ferry sells out.


  • #4
    Bogger77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    http://www.stenaline.ie/ferry/rail-and-sail/scotland/
    Stena do it


  • #5
    kingofburt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭kingofburt


    Here is the Translink timetable, with feeder service to Belfast included, the number provided is for reservations so they might be able to help sell a ticket with laser. http://www.translink.co.uk/resources2007/pdfs/Cross_Channel_Express_251109.pdf

    Alternatively, stenaline.ie shows the option of booking a ticket from Connolly to Glasgow via Stranraer for €55 http://www.stenaline.ie/ferry/rail-and-sail/scotland/#book.


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