Limerick-Ballybrophy line

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Deedsie wrote: »

The entire line or just Castleconnell to Limerick Colbert?

The Bus transfers are from Birdhill to Limerick Colbert, rest of the line is still be rail

Fred Swanson

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Deedsie wrote: »

The entire line or just Castleconnell to Limerick Colbert?

It's all on IE's website. Nothing in or out of Limerick for 3 weeks.

The_Wanderer

Fred Swanson wrote: »

So the 2800's will be serviced in Portlaoise during the closure?

The 2800 fleet will be out based at Ennis, Birdhill, Limerick Jct for the duration of the closure of Limerick Station.

A handful of sets will remain at Limerick works.

"Man in a van" to service them at the above locations.

Fred Swanson

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Jamie2k9

Fred Swanson wrote: »

How will they be able to fuel them and empty the toilets at places like Birdhill? Surely it would have made more sense to have them serviced in Portlaoise for the duration?

Mobile tanker every fee days.

Del.Monte

Presumably this disruption to services - at a time when there are likely to be tourists about - has been chosen to further undermine the viability of the Nenagh branch and Limerick Jn/Waterford route? You couldn't make it up, and one day in the not too distant future, as your bus for Dublin, Waterford etc. pulls out from under the overall roof at Limerick station you'll wonder how it happened. :rolleyes:

Jamie2k9

Del.Monte wrote: »

Presumably this disruption to services - at a time when there are likely to be tourists about - has been chosen to further undermine the viability of the Nenagh branch and Limerick Jn/Waterford route? You couldn't make it up, and one day in the not too distant future, as your bus for Dublin, Waterford etc. pulls out from under the overall roof at Limerick station you'll wonder how it happened. :rolleyes:

Come one, using your lodgic means they also want to scrap Limerick/Limerick J.

Its been done in June as travel drops off significantly.

Jamie2k9

Deedsie wrote: »

Fred Swanson wrote: »

How will they be able to fuel them and empty the toilets at places like Birdhill? Surely it would have made more sense to have them serviced in Portlaoise for the duration?

I always thought Nenagh would be a far more sensible station for servicing the trains etc. Kinda the halfway point along the line, large station yard.

There is also a huge car park for employees, rail users, and for the local rural population use the car park when visiting Nenagh.

You are basing this on two units, what about the rest which operate WRC, Limerick J shuttle as well as weekly transfers from Mayo/Cork. Limerick is best placed......

Del.Monte

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Come one, using your lodgic means they also want to scrap Limerick/Limerick J.

Its been done in June as travel drops off significantly.

Back in the 1970s McKinsey & Company suggested a number of different options for the railways - two of which were to close them down immediately or run them down over a period of time. Well they obviously didn't go with the first one for political reasons but whether by deliberate policy or incompetence the latter option is well underway. Limerick/Limerick Jn has no more future than the rest of the rail system outside the Greater Dublin area. Indeed, the day the railway stopped being a common carrier was the beginning of the end.

As the buffoon from Elephant Self Storage would say 'think of the railway as a giant conveyor belt' but only used by certain things i.e. passengers and it becomes a nonsensical waste of money. In 2017 it still needs a vast annual expenditure to keep it running but serves far less of a purpose than it could/should.

tabbey

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Its been done in June as travel drops off significantly.

I was unaware that travel drops off in June.

I accept that Irish third level students are not going home for weekends in June, but surely holidaymakers and day trippers increase substantially as summer approaches.

Jamie2k9

tabbey wrote: »

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

 
Its been done in June as travel drops off significantly.

I was unaware that travel drops off in June.

I accept that Irish third level students are not going home for weekends in June, but surely holidaymakers and day trippers increase substantially as summer approaches.

Student traffic is significant to Irish Rail and the day trips are largely young primary school kids and families which don't finish school until end of June.  Local secondary school traffic will also not be impacted by picking June while business traffic starts to dip around June-August.
There is never a good time to close a railway for works so they just have to pick a time where the impact isn't significant.

The_Wanderer

Del.Monte wrote: »

Presumably this disruption to services - at a time when there are likely to be tourists about - has been chosen to further undermine the viability of the Nenagh branch and Limerick Jn/Waterford route? You couldn't make it up, and one day in the not too distant future, as your bus for Dublin, Waterford etc. pulls out from under the overall roof at Limerick station you'll wonder how it happened. :rolleyes:

Care to name a good time to re-signal the station so?

Fred Swanson

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Del.Monte

It also smacks of the old CIE 'playing with trains' syndrome where the public, freight etc. are a nuisance. Never any attempt to facilitate the public - just suspend the service when ever they choose - all that you can expect from a company run as a plaything for engineers and pencil pushers. Time was when everything was subservient to the needs of the traffic department.

tabbey

Forty or fifty years ago, signalling changes and track remodelling were achieved bit by bit during short possessions.

In recent times it has become the norm to close down for a number of days in major alterations in England, Paddington, Reading for example.

Three weeks in a relatively small place like Limerick, is utterly cavalier

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Wonder has it hit passenger numbers any bit? Or were most passengers just originating from Castleconnell onwards and heading towards Dublin anyway?