A map of Cork - Dublin - Belfast - Stranraer taken from the EU European Commission Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) document

The European Union defines Cork to Dublin to Belfast to Stranraer as one of the top 10 of Trans-European networks.

This certainly implies a fixed link and reinstatement of the Dumfries to Stranraer line.

After all how else is continental Europe to be accessed in a speedy and efficient way?

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Such a facility would inter-join the UK and create a bigger UK logistics sector including a marshalling yard in Belfast area.

And in European terms it would be as strategic as the Oresund Bridge Gotthard and Brenner Base Tunnels.

On these grounds a case for EU support and buy in.