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West Cork Rail

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  • #2
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Teddy455 wrote: »
    http://www.invectis.co.uk/cork/Local%20Lines%20WEST%20CORK%20RAIL.pdf

    proposed railway line from Cork City to towns in west cork With stations at Ballinhassig, Innishannon, Bandon, Clonakilty Dunmanway, Drimoleague, Skibbereen, Bantry

    Yes? :confused: This rubbish is 5 years old!

    PS Welcome to the Boards.


  • #3
    Oliver1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Oliver1985


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Yes? :confused: This rubbish is 5 years old!

    PS Welcome to the Boards.

    The Dream is over :(


  • #4
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The lad behind this "Local Lines" stuff is a dreamer with no influence and no backers. Its no more a realistically proposed line than my 'proposal' to reopen the L&LSR line to Burtonport (with a new bridge to Leabgarrow).

    Lets not even get in to the insanity of using tramcars over the distances involved.


  • #5
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    As far as distances go, the S4 tram-train line (part of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn in Germany) is 150 km long. People do ride trams for some distance indeed.

    (Pic is for effect. Don't expect the Luas to be so converted.)
    9620_1_gross_4-1_Bild2.jpg


  • #6
    dermo88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭dermo88


    The date of Brian Guckians submission was 11th July 2005. Back then, it should be remembered that Ireland was still going through the economic bubble craze. The exchequer was awash with cash, and there was a case of too much money and not enough sense.

    Unfortunately, this applies to many of Mr Guckians projects and ideas. While admirable in their own sweet quaint way, they are divorced from the reality that there are higher priorities such as Law enforcement, Education, Hospitals and more services required in a district.

    The reality with CIE and Iarnrod Eireann is that privatisation, rationalisation and justification will be the buzzwords in the years to come. The regional rail network will see an investment freeze on the same scale as that which took place between the early 1920's and the mid 1990's.


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