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Largest Towns Which are NOT Rail Connected?

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  • #92
    armaghlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    Chimichangas wrote: »
    Was only reading about the Beecher Report?? yesterday. Tragic mistaken use of economics to decide to close down railways in the UK, and then FF copied the same tactics from what I was reading. Disasterous especially in terms of remote locations and the over-reliance and love affair with cars and lorries that has us disliking public transport and not recognising the relatively equal connectivity it gave everyone.
    Will we ever get it back?
    A number of nationalist towns lost their railways in the north, whether there were motives at play other than economics is often questionable. Strabane, Omagh, Dungannon all lost their stations. The road network was never upgraded to cope, not until recent years. To add insult to injury the line from Derry to Belfast via Coleraine was left to rot and is only in recent years undergoing work to make it fit for purpose. A look at road and rail infrastructure in NI is depressingly lopsided.


  • #93
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭feargale


    Chimichangas wrote: »
    Was only reading about the Beecher Report?? yesterday. Tragic mistaken use of economics to decide to close down railways in the UK, and then FF copied the same tactics from what I was reading. Disasterous especially in terms of remote locations and the over-reliance and love affair with cars and lorries that has us disliking public transport and not recognising the relatively equal connectivity it gave everyone.
    Will we ever get it back?

    The public's love affair with cars was the biggest problem. Delegations from various parts of the country travelled to Dublin to try to persuade Todd Andrews to reverse his decision to close their railway line - usually travelling to Dublin by car. Up to about 1960 the government could have developed a comprehensive public transport system by imposing heavy taxes on private cars, but the moment has passed.


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