Pace rail line (Navan)

dodgyme

What the latest news on this?

Navan Junction

Pace is meandering to railway order.

This is the last item in the news in Meath about the line


Route of Navan-Dublin rail line to be outlined `within weeks`
Meath Chronicle, 10th Nov 2007

THE exact route for the reinstated Navan to Dublin railway line is expected to be announced within weeks.

A Railway Order already has been submitted for the first 4.7 miles from Clonsilla to Dunboyne. However, a new scoping study relating to the 18.5 miles from Dunboyne to Navan is about to be published.
Iarnrod Eireann says that the new Dunboyne to Navan study will include details of likely locations for train stations and will provide route confirmation for the reinstated line.
The scoping study on the proposed Pace to Navan railway line could come before Meath County Councillors for consideration at their December meeting, the council`s director of services for economic development and innovation, Kevin Stewart, told councillors at Monday`s November meeting of the council.

The current likely agenda for release of the study was towards the end of November. In that event, the study would be presented to the full meeting of Meath County Council in December, which is scheduled to take place in Ashbourne.

Colr Jim Holloway said the launching of the crucial rail study was greatly looked forward to. "I have no doubt that the report will reveal that it is both feasible and economic to build the railway from Pace to Navan," he said.

He added that what he did not want to hear was that the timeframe of 2015 as contained in the Transport 21 initiative could not be adhered to.

"In fact, 2015 is a ridiculous timeframe because, if the political will was there, there is no reason why the railway could not be delivered within a few years," he said.

The reopening of the Meath line was announced as part of Transport 21 in November 2005. Under that plan, the Navan link is to be reinstated in two stages.

The scoping study will also cover route selection, environmental studies, engineering feasibility studies and cost/benefit analyses.

One controversial aspect of the study will centre on whether the railway will reconnect with the Drogheda line at the rear of Pairc Tailteann in Navan to allow for a connection to a station north of the town to serve Kells and north Meath commuters.

As part of the study on the 18-mile extension of the line from Dunboyne to Navan, consultants held meetings in Dunshaughlin and Navan last February to seek people`s views on preferred routes and stations.

The study`s brief was drawn up by Iarnrod Eireann and Meath County Council and is being carried out by Dublin-based consultants Roughan O`Donovan Faber Maunsell.

In September, an application was made by Iarnrod Eireann for the first 4.7 miles of railway between Dunboyne (Pace) and Clonsilla station.

Navan rail campaigners have welcomed the completion of the scoping study. However, they have warned that its completion should not lead to complacency.

A Meath on Track spokesperson said: "We have no date or deadline for the Dunshaughlin and Navan Railway Order. We have no date for the additional studies and public inquiry needed to get it to that point. And we have no date for the actual commencement of works on the line."

According to Meath on Track`s website, the projected journey times to Dublin city by train from Navan will be 50 minutes.

The original Navan line closed in 1963. However, as the original alignment was built to the same high specification as the Dublin-Belfast and Dublin-Cork main lines with a highest gradient of 1:100, it is widely expected that, where possible, most of the original line will be incorporated into a route identified in the scoping study.

The original Navan-Dublin railway was built in 1862 and took less than three years to complete. However, the line is not due to open until 2015 under the Transport 21 plan.

dodgyme

I wonder when the likelihood of the line actually being laid to Dunboyne is?.

Skyhater

Navan Junction wrote: »

Route of Navan-Dublin rail line to be outlined `within weeks`
Meath Chronicle, 10th Nov 2007

THE exact route for the reinstated Navan to Dublin railway line is expected to be announced within weeks.........

I thought Martin Cullen signed the railway order for the line to Navan before the election
Uhhh no.....now i remember...... That was another of his lies!!!!! :mad:

D.L.R.

It's a pity the rail network in general isn't coming up to modern standard as quickly as the road network. It seems that most transport funding is being allocated to new motorways these days. We must have one of the most archaic rail networks in all of Europe (N&S), with huge swathes of the country left blank. Soon most journey times by road will beat rail, which will hinder the system's economic viability even more. This government doesn't seem big on rail as a priority. :mad:

dodgyme

D.L.R. wrote: »

It's a pity the rail network in general isn't coming up to modern standard as quickly as the road network :

They would if you could change the direction of the automated train gates from stopping the cars to stopping the trains and stick some lad in a spanish companies toll booth beside it while everyone on the train is asked to pay for the privelege of the gate being opened. If this happened we would have the best train network in the world in less than the time it takes Martin cullen to get another drink for monica leech while using brown coloured beer mates to soak up the overspill.

spacetweek

dodgyme wrote: »

They would if you could change the direction of the automated train gates from stopping the cars to stopping the trains and stick some lad in a spanish companies toll booth beside it while everyone on the train is asked to pay for the privelege of the gate being opened. If this happened we would have the best train network in the world in less than the time it takes Martin cullen to get another drink for monica leech while using brown coloured beer mates to soak up the overspill.

What??