Metrolink - Alternative Routes - See post one for restrictions.

Consonata · 21-08-2025 09:52PM

It does not however provide an interchange for both railways as has been outlined to you numerous times, again and again and again. Glasnevin is as blank of a canvasas we are going to get (no offence to the Brian boru pub) for a significant interchange for the railways. If you so desperately want to get to Drumcondra from there, then simply hop on a Dart!!

Consonata · 22-08-2025 12:56AM

No, the function of redoing the junction is to allow for better use of Spencer Dock station with its 8 platforms, which will be inaccessible to Drumcondra.

If Dart+ Underground is built via Spencer Dock, it will also be inaccessible via Drumcondra.

Drumcondra will be used only for services bound for Connolly onwards.

spillit67 · 22-08-2025 08:42AM

It has one line, therefore less capacity. So you’d be funnelling less passengers through the station and automatically making the tie in less appealing. And it can’t get to Spencer Dock station.

Why is this so hard?

KrisW1001 · 22-08-2025 08:43AM

The 1969 Dublin Rail Study ran its proposed north-south underground line via Glasnevin.

Metro North was the only proposal to ever suggest using Drumcondra station as a tie-in. Metro North was designed between 2002 and 2007. Who was the Taoiseach then? Where did he live?

Sam Russell · 22-08-2025 08:55PM

@Brightlights66

Mod: Can you drop the whole mention of Drumcondra wrt Metro.

The Metrolink is designed, and there is no way additional metro lines will pass within an asses roar of Drumcondra ever.

Just drop it.

OisinCooke · 23-08-2025 06:21PM

Not trying to add any kind of justification to Strassenwolf’s utterly stupid arguments but surely it’s not true that trains from Drumcondra won’t be able to access Spencer Dock…? Is it that ‘the dip’ linking Drumcondra just won’t be electrified?

This schematic from the D+ thread seems to indicate that they will be able to, and that the actual plan is to use the link. Not that this would make any difference to @Brightlights66’s comment when it comes to justification of not building Glasnevin and having all trains run through Drumcondra, as 19+ trains an hour would simply not work.

Not trying to derail the thread off topic but just very quickly wondering what the story is here.

Brightlights66 · 23-08-2025 09:10PM

Mod: Despite warnings, you keep on about Drumcondra!

Consonata · 23-08-2025 09:22PM

Meanwhile Glasnevin will have 18 Dart's per hour per direction vs. Drumcondras' 12?

With plenty of scope for expansion of same, Glasnevin will have 4 platforms, vs Drumcondra's 2

Consonata · 23-08-2025 10:46PM

I think most people find it deeply irritating that you do not listen to any of the clear benefits of the Glasnevin selection over Drumcondra. It has been repeated over and over again.

Consonata · 24-08-2025 08:45AM

They are not going to build a Drumcondra South Station. It would be madness to build it so close to Glasnevin for questionable catchment benefit?

Its dubious whether there is even space to build a new Dart station there? I highly doubt it. All to facilitate a 100m half connection between two stations? Whilst also mining out a Metrolink station?

KrisW1001 · 24-08-2025 09:19AM

[In response to Brightlights66 repeated dragging of the thread onto a single topic]

You have again misunderstood why you keep being being warned.

The topic was raised, by you, and has been criticised (I mean that it the analytical sense) by almost everyone who posts here. Raising the topic again, unchanged, will not change the reception it receives. Continuing to bring it up is disruptive to the discussion.

I assume that you are aware of the reasons why you are compelled to repeat this topic? If so, you should also remember that while repeating the idea may be reassuring to you, doing so can easily bore or infuriate other people, and that their negative reactions will stop them from engaging with you on any other topic. I assume that you, like all of us, joined this forum to talk to other people, so it seems strange to effectively train the other people here into ignoring your posts or blocking you.