A number of pro-choice activists, including councillors and TDs, have travelled from Dublin to Belfast today in order to recreate the "Contraception Train" of 1971.

That year, activists took the train to the North and returned with condoms, which were then illegal in the Republic of Ireland.

In a bid to highlight the continued ban on abortion in the Republic, non-surgical abortion pills were collected in Belfast today for use by women here.

#abortionpilltrain pic.twitter.com/WizKx7ItZX

— Sinéad Kennedy (@SineadmKennedy) October 28, 2014

The interest group ROSA (Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity) says some activists took the pills to demonstrate their safety and to defy - what they call - Ireland's "medieval abortion laws which criminalise women."

The participants included activists from a range of Irish pro-choice groups including ROSA, Action for Choice and Real Productive Health.

The action takes place two years after the death of Savita Halappanavar.

Over 150,000 women have travelled abroad for abortions in the last 30 years.

Rita Harrold is from the group, ROSA. Speaking earlier, she said the current government are far too conservative where abortion is concerned.

Honoured to be able to hand over vital abortion pills to women in the South today at Central Station. pic.twitter.com/GilDeWYcyF

— Courtney Robinson (@Coroweee) October 28, 2014