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Report calls for reopening of Western Rail Corridor

  • 11-10-2007 1:56pm
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    ishmael whale
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    It could have been worse. At least it shoots down the prospect of throwing money at the Claremorris to Collooney portion, and doesn't seem too warm about going beyond Tuam.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/05/13/story202403.html

    Report calls for reopening of Western Rail Corridor
    13/05/2005 - 14:52:34

    The Western Rail Corridor which runs from Ennis to Sligo should be re-opened on a phased basis, a report recommended today. The Working Group on the Western Rail Corridor said the most viable section of the 114-mile railway was the 51-mile railway section from Ennis in Co Clare to Athenry and Tuam in Co Galway. It would cost around €110m to re-open, as opposed to €365m for the project as a whole.

    “It would create a rail link between the four largest cities outside Dublin; Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Cork and thus implement a major objective of the National Spatial Strategy,” it said. At the launch in Castlebar, County Mayo, Transport Minister Martin Cullen said he was committed to re-opening the railway.

    …… While examining other sections of the Western Rail Corridor, it found the 17-mile line from Tuam to Claremorris in Co Mayo would cost almost €59m, rising to around €197m for the 46-mile line from Claremorris to Collooney in Sligo.

    The report said the high cost of restoring the Claremorris to Collooney line was because it had been constructed as a light railway in 1891 and would need to be upgraded to a national heavy rail standard. There would also be a need to alter more than 200 level crossings, including two which would cost €24m alone.

    “Expenditure of this order would be very difficult to justify and the case for its restoration, as things stand, is weak except on the grounds of balanced regional development,” the report said.
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