Nearly a thousand people will have travelled on special peace trains by the time they have done their return journeys between Dublin and Belfast this afternoon. The trips are in protest against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing of cross-border services, which have been disrupted nearly eighty times so far this year by explosions and bomb alerts.
Report shows two bishops at Belfast Central Rail Station seeing off the passengers.
Train departing from station.
Passengers on the train.
Interview with Sam McAughtry, Chairman, Peace Train Northern Committee.
Views from the moving train.
Farmers protesting at Newry Rail Station about the closure of border roads.
The reporter is Gary Honeyford.
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