Ireland by train

How to travel in Ireland by train: information, connections, blog and travel reports. Help in our forum to buy train tickets.

Ireland: To travel in Ireland by train, buy your ticket online via the given booking links to get cheap advance fares. Apart from these online fares there is also a number of reductions available to buy locally from train stations.

If no train connection is available, make use of one of the frequent bus connections.

IE Ireland - UK United Kingdom

Travel from Ireland to Great Britain by train and ferry. There are "SailRail" tickets available which include the transportation by train and ferry in one ticket. From any railway station in Ireland to any railway station in Great Britain.

The ticket fare for "SailRail" tickets on the route from Dublin to London is 44,50 GBP. The total journey time is about eight to ten hours.
From Cork, Galway, Limerick, Killarney or Tralee to London the ticket fare is 68 GBP.
From Belfast to London the "SailRail" ticket fare is 61 GBP.

If it is not possible to buy a "SailRail" ticket for your planed travel route, first buy a train ticket from your departure railway station in Ireland to the port (see ferry routes bellow). Then a ticket for the ferry crossing to Great Britain. And finally a train ticket to your travel destination in Great Britain.

There are the following main ferry routes available which you can use:

1) Dublin to Holyhead: it is the common travel route from Ireland to London. Ferry tickets from 32 GBP.
2) Rosslare to Fishguard. Ferry tickets from 32 GBP.
3) Dublin and Belfast to Liverpool. Ferry tickets from 32 GBP.
4) Belfast and Larne to Cairnryan. Ferry tickets from 21 GBP.

Find the exact train and ferry schedules and buy your tickets via the given booking links.

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