It will be interesting to see how they tender the DART+ W construction/civil works. If it will be one big contract or if they'll separate into various elements, for example line works, Spencer Dock area, Glasnevin Junction, etc.
Sounds like the remnants of the old Liffey Junction station.
Assuming line is down west of Broombridge, passengers can disembark at Broombridge, then train continues a short distance to siding, the train then is brought back to Broombridge and train heads west again.
I was on a train from Sligo today and had that exact thought when passing Broombridge, it looks like there's disused platforms there that could be repurposed as a turn back. Mind you they are past the main station so not sure how a connection could be accommodated.
I note that the new timetable they announced back in May is to commence on the 25th of this month, so that date would make the most sense for opening it
Kishoge Train Station Opening
I was listening to newstalk 10am news bulletin it was either last friday or saturday morning Aug 2nd/3rd August. They reported that Kishoge Train Station is opening the end of August 2024. I looked online but could not find any confirmation of this. Keep and eye on media so for end of August
Presumably it would also be relatively easy to install a turnback at Broombridge, so people could still get to town using the Luas.
Yes, the most extensive disruption will be at Glasnevin station (not part of this railway order) the length of time is something that is yet to be coordinated between metrolink and IÉ but could be many months at a time. Perhaps the either the MGWR or the GSWR can be kept open at all times.
Will the line be closed for any significant periods of time?
Mid to late 2025. Could possibly be 2026 if tenderers aren't keen. The Spencer Dock package of works is complex in engineering terms. It's building a train station below the water table,something which hasn't been attempted in Ireland before.
The bridge works also involve some very sensitive heritage works, which might make contractors reluctant.
Then there's the Ashtown underpass including a new viaduct for the royal canal.
Altogether it's a complex job with many specialist requirements.
When will ground likely be broken on Dart+ West now it's approved? Even without the depot, stuff like Spencer Dock finally being built will be great.
Remove the existing platform, reinstate the second track, rebuild the two platforms to the west of the bridge. Canoe club not impacted. Would that work?
The trackbed was already double track, it always had been as the line was built as double track to Mullingar. All structures over the line are double track due to this. Many won't have the height for catenary, though.
It was singled in the 20s or 30s; with the single track slewed to somewhat in the middle of the trackbed.
Kilcock Station was built, completely new, on that site in the 1990s. It was built on the trackbed, going under the bridge.
The same had been done when Confey station was constructed in 1990 as a completely new station, with a single platform on the dual track trackbed. This had to be completely demolished to return the line to a dual alignment - as with Kilcock, the space does not exist to put two lines through without removing the platform that was built on the trackbed.
This shows the site, including a platform face, of the original Kilcock station. The track is too far from the platform, due to having been slewed to the centre.
I think that it has been general policy to renew overbridges with room for double tracks where appropriate.
From Google Street View it looks like the bridge at Kilkock station was 'relatively' recently rebuilt? There definitely appears to be space for a second track, but I can't comment on space for platforms. I got a train from there only once and I don't recall noticing lots of space.
I'm curious - if the bridge was indeed refurbished recently, were we so shortsighted not to leave space for a 2nd platform? Christ Almighty!...
I think you are relying on Google Maps and photoshop. And have never been to Kilcock; or have zero spatial ability - one or the other.
There's no space, your photoshops show you don't have any comprehension of what's required.
Further replies on this would be a waste of time and electrons, as you'll just hit photoshop again.
I think you just aren't familiar with the station, and lack foresight.
If space is that tight, an island platform, and a turnback siding just after the station is all that is needed.
A photoshop job does not reflect reality.
There isn't space.
There isn't space for two tracks and the platform under the bridge, let alone your photoshopped two track and two platforms. And you have no access to the impossible second platform either.
He might be under selling it as the plan back in January was to have 19 new trains in service by the end of 2025 and then the remaining 18 trains in 2026. These should free up ICR's with plans to introduce hourly services to Galway, Waterford and Sligo by early 2027.
Here you go. Two tracks and a second platform. More room than I thought.
Kilcock ideally needs a third platform for DARTs to terminate at. Just go west of the road bridge, plenty of space there. As I said before, that also opens the possibility of another station on the eastern side of the town.
They are, they explicitly state leaving the platform as it is.
Moving it inwards would require CPOing houses. Doable but likely.
I think the poster is suggesting taking space from other uses (e.g. the front car parking spaces) to build a new platform back from the existing one. I don't know if that is feasible, but it could allow a new track and platform to built, and a platform to built on the other side of the existing track. But then the local canoe club would have a problem.
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The existing platform is on the trackbed
The two track trackbed that abuts the canal
There is no space to put two tracks in without demolishing the existing platform.
The corridor is extremely narrow through there. At any point on the line, the space is only wide enough to have two tracks, or one platform and one track. What you cannot have is two tracks and a platform - there just isn't room.
I don’t think you’re hearing me. Change the layout.
There is no space for a second running line with the existing layout, because the platform is built on where it once was.
Not really. The existing platform stays where it is, as does the current running line. New double track beside the current one. New up platform offset further to the west if it needs to be.
There's depots in both Longford and Mullingar that operate those trains.
Last train to Maynooth goes back empty to Connolly.
