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What rail line do you think could be re-opened?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,538 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    the answer is some lines genuinely outlived any usefulness while others were removed for political reasons.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Naas to tullow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,895 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    If I’m being a bit parochial I’d love to see the Kilkenny to Portlaoise (maryborough!) line reopened. Unlikely to ever happen but a shame it closed back in the 60s. There’s a good bit of commuter traffic between the two all going by road



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    I agree, I don't mind closing railway lines for a period with the view of reopening them sometime in the future. The worst thing is closing and pullings the railways up and landowners moving in and claiming these passageways. Just imagine the hard work that went into building the countries rail network, blood sweat and pain. Done with picks and shovels, knocking hillsides, filling hollows to keep the path level. It was better done than most roads in the country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    Of all the closed lines, which ones had alignments that are most up to scratch in terms of today's standards for line speeds etc?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Paddico


    Was there or is there talk of reopening Middleton to Youghal.

    If it was budgeted for now in terms of feasibility, its still probably 20 years away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭alentejo


    Waterford wexford



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭OisinCooke


    Agreed, not Waterford to Rosslare but Waterford to Wexford. Journey times can be made very competitive (a lot of the line is relatively straight) and can be used to accelerate express Wexford to Dublin services via Waterford and onwards to Heuston via the electrified 200kmh Dublin Waterford main line. If they reopen the line but keep it pointed towards Rosslare, (an unfortunate likelihood…) they are only throwing money down the drain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭jd


    The railway review mentions a new station at the south end of Wexford Town so it would probably run Rosslare-Wexford-Heuston. There was a curve towards Wexford from Killinick in the distant past.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,895 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    it’ll be a very long time before the Waterford line is electrified and double track even though it’s a perfect candidate for it- more realistic short term goal to reopen this a with a direct curve to Wexford that’s where the population flow lies not Rosslare as you point out. The main population centres in the south east would be linked by rail in this way



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭OisinCooke


    Oh yes no of course, I’m well aware that it’s not something that’s going to happen soon by any means, in fact I think it’ll be far far later than we think but it is a long term goal of IÉ’s (to double track, and electrify to 200kmh capabilities the core intercity routes) and has been backed up by the AISRR so it will happen but as you say it’s just the unfortunate case of when…

    But yes you’re right the South Wexford line and the associated Wexford curve should be reopened anyway ASAP, and not towards Rosslare but to the main population centres of Wexford town and the rest of the county. Was the line supposedly eligible for TEN-T funding…? Any update on that I wonder…?



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,064 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    The Rosslare line should be open to Waterford for freight from the ferry, with a spur into the port itself for loading. A seperate bend up to Wexford town from Killinick would be ideal but costly, as an interim, into Rosslare Strand, and switchover to the Dublin train.

    The problem is IR won't run the frequency or appropriate times for a Rosslare / Waterford line so it will be reinstated and then scrapped in a couple of years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,138 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Rosslare is overwhelmingly ro-ro; and the railway line basically never handled freight.

    Belview is the container load port for the SE and is rail connected.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,064 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    My apologies, I thought it had years ago, thought I had heard some of the rivers talking about it but they could have been driving over to Waterford to run overnights so my mistake.

    On a funny related note, the rosslare train didn't run one day last week due to a stabbing on the tracks, the gardai closed it down. It was only then that I found out that WB run their first Rosslare bus to town, a few minutes later.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    The west Limerick/north Kerry line should have been reopened and to hell with their Greenway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,895 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I hate seeing railway alignments disappear under greenways. It gives them the perfect excuse to never reopen the lines



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,586 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,973 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    But decades of having old lines swallowed up into farmland and having buildings built on them was fine?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭ArcadiaJunction


    Athlone - Mullingar with the western station in Athlone reopened. Ostensibly creates two line from Dublin to Galway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Paddico




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