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Why do we use Irish gauge?

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  • #32
    aindriu80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭aindriu80


    To be honest as an island I can't see there being too many problems with Irish gauge since it is broad and all island. If it was narrow the case to increase it might be worth talking about?

    Of course if there are things like light rail now and again - go standard gauge. The only thing the country could possibly use standard gauge would be a tunnel and high speed rail to the U.K. I'm not sure how things would work there ?

    One thing they should do is open existing lines to private haulage on the rail lines though !


  • #33
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    We don't have international freight
    Yes we do, but the government has deemed it be all hauled by "supertruck". All to far greater expense in both the short and long run to both taxpayer and consumer.


  • #34
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    If it was to work at all I'd say a rail train from Larne to Stranraer would be the way to go... but they've moved the port down the bay from the rail line at the Scottish end and I don't think the Larne rails reach into the Port either do they? Would also require NIR to give a damn about freight which currently they don't seem to.

    As for the Talgo bogies - wouldn't have to retrofit the whole fleet, just the part dedicated to the crosschannel run. Thing is, to make it work financially you'd have to clear the alignments for 9'6" on standard wagons I would think, since the pockets are a substantial reducer of TEU for a given length of train - some lengthening of passing track too I fancy, plus strengthening for high axle weights if 071s were deemed insufficient to the task.


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