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Fastest, longest route in Ireland?

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  • #32
    Losty Dublin
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    newmug wrote: »
    Where would the longest / fastest stretch be on the Sligo line?

    Max speed is 80MPH on the line so nowhere special as such :)


  • #33
    dermo88
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    Max speed is 80MPH on the line so nowhere special as such

    Not bad for a regional line by European standards in fairness.


  • #34
    Jamie2k9
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    Official stats from Irish Rail show max speed for the majority of Sligo route is 70mph and not 80mph, with lower than 70mph for some areas.


  • #35
    Neeson
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    Can you put up a link with the stats?


  • #36
    Jamie2k9
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    Neeson wrote: »
    Can you put up a link with the stats?

    2011 Network Statement:
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/85054609/IE-Network-Statement-2011

    2030 Rail report:
    http://www.irishrail.ie/media/IrishRail_28FebFinal_Part11.pdf

    I do hope they provide an updated line speed data for 2013 with the changes


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  • #37
    Losty Dublin
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    Neeson wrote: »
    Can you put up a link with the stats?

    That sort of information only appears in the internal working timetable so it won't be online.

    Edit; forgot about the 2011 network statement!


  • #38
    dowlingm
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    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    do hope they provide an updated line speed data for 2013 with the changes
    I suspect that since they chose not to migrate the NS to the new website IE have decided only grown ups can have the Network Statement in future, not us kids with the crayons :rolleyes:


  • #39
    Captain Chaos
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    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Official stats from Irish Rail show max speed for the majority of Sligo route is 70mph and not 80mph, with lower than 70mph for some areas.

    He just said the max is 80mph. He didn't say the majority of the line was 80mph, only parts of it.

    It's like saying the max speed on the Cork line is 100mph, but only small sections are.


  • #40
    Marcusm
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    OP is the only person that I've ever heard refer to Cork Station as Kent - apart from (official) CIE that is.

    I initially thought that he had Anglicised Ceannt Station in Galway!


  • #41
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    The automatic announcer on the train coming into Cork announces "We will shortly arrive at Kent Station Cork... blah blah blah (bus) blah blah blah (taxi) blah blah (CIT, FAS, University College Cork) etc... "


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