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Foynes Line

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  • #52
    Losty Dublin
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    GBOA wrote: »
    Whoever bought Adare station could end up being quite lucky if this happens. Unless of course, they have no interest in rail... I can hear the objections now if that's the case.

    How so?


  • #53
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    How so?

    I took it to mean that if its a rail buff that owns the station they'll be delighted to see an 071 pass by their back door a couple of times every day. However, if they're not they may lodge an objection but I doubt they'd have a leg to stand on as the line was never formally abandoned.


  • #54
    Itsdacraic
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    How likely would this line be to reopen?

    50/50?


  • #55
    gobnaitolunacy
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    I took it to mean that if its a rail buff that owns the station they'll be delighted to see an 071 pass by their back door a couple of times every day. However, if they're not they may lodge an objection but I doubt they'd have a leg to stand on as the line was never formally abandoned.

    CIE Property sold it, and as that entity moves on a geological timescale I'm assuming they covered themselves well, in case they go tripping over rails or doing something mad like building an extension across the track.


  • #56
    GBOA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭GBOA


    lord lucan wrote: »
    I took it to mean that if its a rail buff that owns the station they'll be delighted to see an 071 pass by their back door a couple of times every day. However, if they're not they may lodge an objection but I doubt they'd have a leg to stand on as the line was never formally abandoned.

    Exactly what I meant!

    Something similar happened back home when the Stirling - Kincardine line reopened to freight. Those who had bought nice new builds with gardens backing on to the line were none too happy when a 66 hauling coal passed a couple of times a night although there were always plans for the line to be reopened.


  • #57
    corktina
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    i'd love that! I do have a disused line behind my house as it happens, but no coal mine


  • #58
    Copyerselveson
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    Patrick O'Donovan TD raised a question on the Foynes rail line to Leo Varadkar in the Dáil on the 19th December.

    More at http://irishrailwaydevelopments.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/varakar-supportive-of-foynes-rail-freight/


  • #59
    Sligo Quay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Sligo Quay


    Copyerselveson wrote: »
    Patrick O'Donovan TD raised a question on the Foynes rail line to Leo Varadkar in the Dáil on the 19th December.

    More at http://irishrailwaydevelopments.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/varakar-supportive-of-foynes-rail-freight/
    Read all that, very aspirational but its a case of ''never say never'' every minister says that, just like Minister Dempsey before him, he had dreams of lines going all the way to Navan.
    Leo varadkar made a statement a few months ago which is probably more to the truth, ''there are no plans to open new lines or reopen old lines in the present economic circumstances'' thats about the size of it, anything else, dream on, the most important 4words are at the end of the link '' We await further developments.'' that keeps everybody happy and keeps some people's dream alive.


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