The Scottish Government currently gives financial support to the passenger ferry between Gourock and Dunoon, which serves terminals more convenient for foot passengers than the competing Western Ferries service. A similar principle should apply to Stranraer-Belfast, except that the Northern Ireland government, too, would obviously have to be involved. Another suggestion would be the provision of a train ferry between Stranraer and Larne. It would carry gauge changing equipment so that trains could be shifted to or from the Irish broad gauge while en route. It would enable the development of railfreight between the whole of Ireland and the rest of Europe including Great Britain, and could also be used to provide, for the first time ever, through services between British and Irish cities. London to Belfast is an obvious example, but it should also be possible to provide an overnight train from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Dublin which would form part of a strategy to phase out short haul flying.