New platform for Limerick junction

ongarboy · 16-04-2018 10:57PM #1

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/307805/new-platform-planned-at-limerick-junction-to-keep-time-improvements-on-track.html

I never knew there was such a bottleneck on the Dublin Cork railway line that oncoming trains couldn't pass each other at the same time without giving way.

Poxyshamrock · 17-04-2018 01:52PM

Can’t find the plans online yet. Would I be right in saying that the proposed platform will be built on the opposite side of the tracks to Platform 1 (main Cork/Dublin platform)?

Shn99 · 17-04-2018 07:51PM

http://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18600453/0

Poxyshamrock · 17-04-2018 10:41PM

Shn99 wrote: »

http://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18600453/0

No files uploaded yet though.

Jamie2k9 · 18-04-2018 05:26PM

ongarboy wrote: »

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/307805/new-platform-planned-at-limerick-junction-to-keep-time-improvements-on-track.html

I never knew there was such a bottleneck on the Dublin Cork railway line that oncoming trains couldn't pas seach other at the same time without giving way.

They could pass but only one could stop at Limerick Junction.

IE 222 · 20-04-2018 08:00PM

Would a new station located between the Waterford line and the direct curve not be a better investment with a bay platform in the middle for Limerick - Limerick jct. services. It would remove the reversing from Waterford and allow direct Limerick services to stop as well.

Del.Monte · 20-04-2018 09:59PM

IE 222 wrote: »

Would a new station located between the Waterford line and the direct curve not be a better investment with a bay platform in the middle for Limerick - Limerick jct. services. It would remove the reversing from Waterford and allow direct Limerick services to stop as well.

Something similar suggested in the other thread on C+T but would take huge vision and cost more than the planned new platform.

Jamie2k9 · 20-04-2018 11:49PM

Probably talking 25-40 million for a complete new station, access, signalling etc

Its just not worth it to cut maybe 5-6 minutes and allow Waterford-Limerick J-Limerick. I mean signalling/track upgrades between Waterford-Limerick J could deliver than and at a lower cost.

Isambard · 21-04-2018 08:21AM

The trouble is , this upgrade will be built with the mindset that they want to shut the Waterford line. No improvements to the interchange to benefit that line will even occur to them

Shn99 · 28-04-2018 06:43PM

Just passed through the junction, planning notices up and an area on platform 3 marked out for the stairs for the bridge

Shn99 · 23-06-2018 08:37PM

Passed through the junction yesterday, lots of new track has arrived. Has planning for the new platform been granted?

Shn99 · 25-06-2018 06:43PM

Appears it has been, here are the plans http://193.178.30.68/idocswebDPSS/ViewFiles.aspx?docid=548594&format=jpeg http://193.178.30.68/idocswebDPSS/ViewFiles.aspx?docid=548598&format=jpeg

Del.Monte · 25-06-2018 07:31PM

Shn99 wrote: »

Appears it has been, here are the plans http://193.178.30.68/idocswebDPSS/ViewFiles.aspx?docid=548594&format=jpeg http://193.178.30.68/idocswebDPSS/ViewFiles.aspx?docid=548598&format=jpeg

Link doesn't work for me.

Shn99 · 25-06-2018 08:45PM

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Ireland trains · 27-07-2018 10:50PM

Shn99 wrote: »

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So does this mean there will be 2 extra platforms

Poxyshamrock · 29-07-2018 04:42PM

Ireland trains wrote: »

So does this mean there will be 2 extra platforms

Just one afaik.

goingnowhere · 29-07-2018 09:38PM

just a single platform usable only for Cork bound trains

Ireland trains · 29-07-2018 10:08PM

Would make sense if waterford trains could use it via a new direct curve

IE 222 · 29-07-2018 10:38PM

goingnowhere wrote: »

just a single platform usable only for Cork bound trains

Plans look like they include a bay platform as well. Unless it's for stabling track machines or resuce loco.

IE 222 · 29-07-2018 10:40PM

Ireland trains wrote: »

Would make sense if waterford trains could use it via a new direct curve

My guess a curve would be too tights. Maybe an L shape platform could work.

flyingsnail · 30-07-2018 12:13PM

IE 222 wrote: »

Plans look like they include a bay platform as well. Unless it's for stabling track machines or resuce loco.

What looks like a bay on the drawings are just the existing sidings.

IE 222 · 31-07-2018 02:11PM

flyingsnail wrote: »

What looks like a bay on the drawings are just the existing sidings.

I know the current sidings are there but the potential is there to add a bay if they choose to at a later date. It's probably to accommodate the footbridge more so but the design would allow for a bay platform.

Shn99 · 27-10-2018 08:38AM

Work finally beginning, fencing has been erected outlining the new platform, tracks have been removed to make way for it and the machinery is on site.

Ireland trains · 04-01-2019 07:43PM

When is the due completion month

Isambard · 04-01-2019 07:58PM

could guess the month, bit vague on the year though

Shn99 · 04-01-2019 07:59PM

Construction is well under way

theguzman · 06-01-2019 08:15PM

I changed at Limerick Junction recently and there is a lot of work there, was talking to the IE staff and they were two grand lads, told me a fair bit about Railways I never even knew.

Ireland trains · 06-02-2019 10:36PM

What month is the platform due to be finished.
When is pelletstown station due to be built

dowlingm · 17-02-2019 03:48PM

Catching up with this now - great news. The JPGs are a bit blurry, must catch up with the Djvu on a PC later - hard to believe that proprietary ****e persists instead of PDF...

I do think at least a bay for Waterford-LJ (terminating) would be helpful as then those services would not cross the mainline, reducing conflicts there, and could depart promptly and arrive without an undue connection time. But then people might give the service another shot and that would never do!

Del.Monte · 17-02-2019 05:52PM

dowlingm wrote: »

Catching up with this now - great news. The JPGs are a bit blurry, must catch up with the Djvu on a PC later - hard to believe that proprietary ****e persists instead of PDF...

I do think at least a bay for Waterford-LJ (terminating) would be helpful as then those services would not cross the mainline, reducing conflicts there, and could depart promptly and arrive without an undue connection time. But then people might give the service another shot and that would never do!

That's why the whole station should be moved north of its existing location but will never happen.

Shn99 · 17-02-2019 07:18PM

Hi all, passed through junction today and the platform has been built. Pics here :
https://ibb.co/WK0prm6
https://ibb.co/b12KD2X
https://ibb.co/7WV8s57
https://ibb.co/tBGGKFP
https://ibb.co/y6QdNTF
https://ibb.co/SRH4Ygh
https://ibb.co/N15h2wN

New platform for Limerick junction

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