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  • 13-02-2013 4:51pm
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    davidlacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭


    I was browsing through IRRS journals from 2002 and noticed there were 570 people employed by the rail freight division of Irish Rail in 2002, can anyone hazard a guess how many now? a handful?


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  • #2
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    davidlacey wrote: »
    I was browsing through IRRS journals from 2002 and noticed there were 570 people employed by the rail freight division of Irish Rail in 2002, can anyone hazard a guess how many now? a handful?

    Now, I'd say 150 tops. There was a report in a later IRRS journal that around half the staff in the freight division were let go or relocated after the massive down turn of rail freight with the closure of North Wall and North Esk freight yards. For a time even the tara mines freight flows stopped.


  • #3
    davidlacey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭davidlacey


    Shocking state of affairs and on the subject what happened with the relocation of the hub of railfreight after the old LNWR yard was pulled up? Was it a case of we will put it on the long finger and forget about it and hopefully there will be no need for it?


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