Dunboyne rail line

T Corolla

Has anyone heard when is work on the proposed dunboyne rail line is to start.
Is it still going ahead.

Ham'nd'egger

T Corolla wrote: »

Has anyone heard when is work on the proposed dunboyne rail line is to start.
Is it still going ahead.

Preliminary clearance work on the route took place over a year ago on some parts of the old trackbed on the sites in Irish Rail ownership.

The Railway Order for the Pace/Dunboyne line was issued by An Bord Planala at the end of Feburary subject to some conditions, most notably for a station buildings to be located at Hansfield (this was not included in the initial Railway Order as access points to this proposed station were not readied by the developers). Irish Rail lodged planning permission for same in July and AFAIK no decision has been made on this.

Zebra3

I'd assume this will still go ahead and won't be affected by cutbacks. The cost of this line must be minimal compared to MN or the IC.

DWCommuter

Assuming that its being built by IE with outside contractors (like Midleton)...
If contracts havent been signed and the money was not allocated to Irish Rail in their 2008 budget, then it is possible that it could be in trouble after Tuesday. But Im open to correction.

Victor

There is planning permission in place for the Hansfield station.

A contract was meant to have been awarded in September for the main works, but there has been no public announcement of this. I suspect ther eis a fear of a parallel dispute to the one in Cork.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1010/1223560350928.html

MICHELLE McDONAGH

IARNRÓD ÉIREANN line maintenance workers in Cork, who were threatened with dismissal after waging a two-week long unofficial protest, are due to return to work this morning.

However, Siptu says it will be serving the company with strike notice 48 hours after the return of their members to work.

Fourteen workers - 11 of whom are Siptu members and three of whom are affiliated with the National Bus and Rail Workers Union - have been picketing redevelopment work on the Cork-Midleton rail line at Glounthaune for the past two weeks.

The workers are insisting that track-laying work should be exclusively their responsibility. They were protesting at Iarnród Éireann's decision to appoint an independent contractor to lay the new track on the €105 million project which is due to open next April. Their unofficial action was not backed by the unions.

The protesters faced dismissal if they did not return to work by 5pm yesterday amid fears that the dispute could spread to affect other services.

A Labour Relations Commission has already ruled that the contractor is to lay the new track, not the maintenance line workers.

Over the past two days, two NBRU workers have returned to work and the other 12 were due to report for work this morning.

A Siptu spokeswoman in Cork confirmed last night that all of its members would be returning to work this morning.

"After at least a 48-hour period to allow discussions with Iarnród Éireann to take place on the contentious issues, we will be serving the company with seven days notice," the spokeswoman said. "We will basically be reinstituting the strike notice given last July."

An Iarnród Éireann spokeswoman said last night that the protesters would be returning unconditionally to work this morning.