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Foynes Line

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  • #872
    metrovick001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭metrovick001


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123307632#Comment_123307632

    Should have opened the South Wexford line as well



  • #873
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,487 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312456#Comment_123312456

    in fairness it was closed for a reason is hardly any sort of argument against reopening it.
    every line was "closed for a reason" whether the reason was genuinely legitimate or in this case simply not wanting to operate it because guff essentially, the same reasons why the wexford main line is a **** show.
    what has changed to reopen it is nothing, but the very same reasons why it shouldn't have been closed have just got greater.

    if you weren't a user here at the time, go and read some of the threads discussing the line from around the time and after as you will get all of the information you require.

    i would suggest posts by contributers such as judgement day who was a very knowledgable contributer especially on the matter of railways in wexford, and on rail matters in general.

    lots of good discussion at the time, it was mostly before i joined as well but there will have been bits and pieces since.

    Post edited by end of the road on

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



  • #874
    Board Walker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 808 ✭✭✭Board Walker


    Has it been connected at Limerick yet?



  • #875
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,181 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123313610#Comment_123313610

    no abd it will not be connected i to Limerick. They will need to CPO houses and knock them. It being connected to tge line going to Limerick junction

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #876
    pigtown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭pigtown


    There's no houses built on the former curve into the station. Just the (closed?) Irish Rail social club



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  • #877
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,821 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315274#Comment_123315274

    There is no plan to reopen that part of the line though and IR have recently moved their customer car park onto the remaining bridge embankment.

    Also LCCC and the LDA are planning on building circa 300 homes on the former Guinness site, which will more than likely end any possibility of it happening.



  • #878
    pigtown
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    The Colbert Quarter masterplan was careful to preserve the alignment. I doubt they'd be that shortsighted



  • #879
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,821 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    The Colbert Quarter masterplan is never going to be built. You'll get piecemeal development around the area, but that will be it.

    The only proposal released so far was for a highly watered down development behind St. Josephs hospital, which still hasn't actually gone to planning two years after it was announced as it send back to the drawing board for being so underwhelming.

    The development at the former Guinness site is being progressed by the council with the aid of the LDA and isn't actually listed as being part of the Colbert Quarter plan.



  • #880
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,553 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315274#Comment_123315274

    Where was the old curve ?

    I thought it was at the back of Jackman.



  • #881
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,741 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315807#Comment_123315807

    Under the carpark and over the road. Can see one of the bridge abutments still

    Lower Carey's Rd - Google Maps

    Also the non square wall at the back of the adjacent plot to the South if you go on satellite view.



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  • #882
    pigtown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭pigtown


    https://maps.app.goo.gl/PJDoZPNNxJ6tAKYw6

    It crossed the road here



  • #883
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,821 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123315807#Comment_123315807
    image.png

    The original alignment was roughly along the red line. The yellow box is the CIE club.



  • #884
    pigtown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭pigtown


    Yeah. The plan was underwhelming enough to start with and it won't be implemented in full. But John Moran was head of the LDA when the plan was being developed and he will push for as much of it as possible. He's already talking about the 'Limerick Link' walking and cycling route through the site.

    I don't believe that the curve will be built on having survived the car centric past



  • #885
    Paddico
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Paddico


    You'd hope they would have sense to keep the land and have the option to put the curve back at some point in the future.



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