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What was the last rail line to be built?

  • 23-08-2013 1:12pm
    #1
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭


    It's just a curiosity. Ignoring the LUAS, and any double tracking on existing lines, or reopening of previously closed lines. when was the last bit of 'Green field' to rail line project completed and where?


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  • #2
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Dublin Port - new track to container depot adjacent to Tara Mines terminal.


  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    That factory on the Dungarvan line would be a contender...can't remember the name


  • #4
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,242 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    corktina wrote: »
    That factory on the Dungarvan line would be a contender...can't remember the name

    Ballinacourty is the one you are thinking of. The spur was a new line linking to the former Mallow line which was relaid for the plant and there was a railway order made for it's laying. Tara Mines was a relaid line and although the site is large there wasn't any new route added

    Off the head, the last actual new line to be built was Lavistown Loop in 1994 or Kyles turn at Limerick Junction in 1967. Dublin Port was an extension of an existing siding but it is a new line in the sense that it never existed before.

    For an actual line of any significant scale then you are going back to Castlecomer and Wolfhill, both of which were planned during WW1 but were only fully opened in the early 1920's. Passenger wise, Castleblaney to Keady opened in 1911 while Rosslare to Waterford was opened in 1906. I'm sure JD or others may add to or correct these suggestions as well.


  • #5
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    I presume you're ignoring B na M lines as well??

    Wonder was the Silvermines branch built before or after Ballinacourty?


  • #6
    TheBandicoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭TheBandicoot


    Basically, the Irish state hasn't built a single new passenger route in the entirety of its existence? Pathetic.


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  • #7
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    TheBandicoot wrote: »
    Basically, the Irish state hasn't built a single new passenger route in the entirety of its existence? Pathetic.

    Why do you say that?

    There was a very extensive network already built - why would brand new lines be built (aside from in Dublin)?


  • #8
    Cyberbeagle
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭Cyberbeagle


    Blythefield Curve


  • #9
    relaxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭relaxed


    TheBandicoot wrote: »
    Basically, the Irish state hasn't built a single new passenger route in the entirety of its existence? Pathetic.


    The luas.


  • #10
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,242 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    relaxed wrote: »
    The luas.

    OP did say apart from the Luas :)


  • #11
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    OP did say apart from the Luas :)

    Bandicoot didn't.


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  • #12
    CaptainFreedom
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭CaptainFreedom


    Im prob wrong but the Dargan Bridge section in Belfast between Belfast Central and Yorkgate??


  • #13
    Hungerford
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    CaptainFreedom wrote: »
    Im prob wrong but the Dargan Bridge section in Belfast between Belfast Central and Yorkgate??

    I think that you are nearly right. The Dargan Bridge section opened in November 1994. The Blythefield Curve into Great Victoria Street opened in September 1995.


  • #14
    relaxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭relaxed


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    Bandicoot didn't.

    Exactly.


  • #15
    CaptainSkidmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭CaptainSkidmark


    Midleton?


  • #16
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    That was already there - the line to Youghal.


  • #17
    strongback
    Registered Users Posts: 474 ✭✭strongback


    There was a new section of line constructed to divert around the new Killkenny ring road in the 2000's. It was approx 1100m long. The rail design was carried out by a UK consultant.


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