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Issue 2 2018 - Freight Business Journal


///FREIGHT BREAK Mystery of the deep


And so to Belfast. Should you ever get the chance, I can thoroughly recommend taking a peek inside the port of Belfast’s offices on Corporation Square. Not only is it a splendid Victorian building in itself, but it also contains a mini-museum of shipping artefacts – including the Titanic captain’s table. This, far from being some


barnacle-encrusted wreck salvaged from the ocean bed, is in perfect condition. How so? The story is that some


of the fitting-out work for the vast new liner was running behind schedule, including the making of the splendid varnished wood table. At the last minute, it was


decided that the Captain would have to forego his new furniture on the Titanic’s maiden voyage, and that it would instead be put on board on the ship’s return to Ireland. And of course, they never go the


chance…


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On the borderline


Moving on from Dublin on my Irish odyssey, the weekend journey from Ireland’s south to north gave a window on some of the problems people could face post Brexit. The Bus Eireann coach sped down the new M1 motorway from Dublin to the town of Cavan but the six-lane highway eventually gave way to a more sedate and winding two lane road through a series of Bally- somethings. Having made


the transition


from high-speed motorway express to local stopping bus, we then crossed the border. In the first town in Northern Ireland, we picked up an old boy, brandishing his free travel pass, destination Enniskillen (also in NI). So here was a bus operated by the Irish state, carrying a pensioner whose travel


was presumably subsidised by the Northern Ireland government, on a journey wholly within that country. Could any of this work with a hard border in place? Three hours or so out of Dublin, we arrived at Enniskillen’s


Ulsterbus depot - where the departure screen


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interesting destination for the 194. Clearly, the bus people haven’t got round to updating things since 1992 - or perhaps they know something we don’t?


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