Christmas afternoon crayoning

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If Santa has brought me some crayons, and I am wondering what to draw on a map.    Here is the TourHound British and Irish Explorer trip of 18 nights covering the British Isles ... and I recently submitted this to the Irish Railways Facebook group who were looking to draw in some new routed to open by 2040. 

From Rosslare (really the Harbour, not a train prison on the outskirts) to Waterford, on via Cork to Blarney (my only teaching qualification gained by kissing the stone there and on via Killarney to Dingle, back through Tralee, Ballybunion and Limerick to the Cliffs of Mohar, Galway, Clare Morris, Sligo, Ballyshanon, Donegal and Killybegs, the back via the Derry Road to Dublin, terminating in the docks.

With the coming of more leisure traffic with the railways should be encouraging (though sometimes I wonder, especially with SWR^» (South Western Railway - about)) and the need to be greener, should future developments and network updates take full note of the tourist trade?  If so for the mainland section - what extras do we need?  London to Stratford-upon-Avon direct service would look sensible.   Rails to St Andrews.  Inverness to Fort William was started and petered out at Fort Augustust - a gap waiting to be filled.