Provisioning, commissioning and operating a permanent 20km heavy rail service to exclusively serve a village of 1,250 souls makes absolutely no sense. None. Nada. Zilch. Unless of course you are living in Brian Leddin's armpit.
Well yes, a lot of other work needs to be done. But securing the best location for a station into presumably public ownership is prudent.
surely they'll build a monorail to the course and then remove it after the event?
When you look at the Irishrail map there are glaring big holes between Limerick and Cork and thats where the future commuter rail should concentrate. Some work is being done there but more is needed.
Ya people also complain that those towns are too small but compared to the some of absolute nowhere stations in Connacht they are very viable.
The nowhere stations you refer to are intermediate stations that the Sligo, Ballina and Castlebar/Westport services pass through anyway and so it makes sense to serve them, especially as a number of them are poorly served by road. Not in any way a valid comparison with the village of Adare.
Thats exactly what I said. It's the intermediate towns between Limerick, LJ and Cork that should be concentrated on.
Mallow is served well with Rail, Charleville has a station and theres talk of reopening Buttevant. which is pretty much the big population centres along the N20 Cork-Limerick.
Rebuilding the Careys Road bridge in Limerick would allow direct Patrickswell Adare Foynes but what traffic would it serve - there's no big employers in Limerick city centre.
"there's no big employers in Limerick city centre"
Ya sure it's only the 3rd biggest urban centre in the country. Total nonsense.
Once again I am not advocating for opening Adare but if you want to talk employment the line does pass Raheen Industrial estate and near UHL.
It's not nonsense really. Think about the layout. Most people live in the suburbs. The line is of absolutely no use to anyone living in Castletroy/Annacotty or for anyone living on the Northside and heading to Raheen (or vice versa).
Very few people live in the city centre (hopefully we'll see this change in the near future) so there's not much ridership from there either (and the 304 will get them closer to their destination).
Limerick city centre not being a big employer is absolutely nonsense.
Other than cafe's, pubs and charity shops tell me what else is there in the city centre
Banks, estate agents, clothes shops, electrical and DIY shops, jewellers, butchers, fishmongers, large and small supermarkets, court houses, council offices, hospitals, IT offices, legal offices, a garda station, dentists, pharmacies and schools.
Is that enough kid.
Jack Fitzgeralds the kadt electrical shop is moving out of the towns centre, JC Daly the last hardware shop closed 3-4 months ago. Only a fraction of the council offices are in the city center most of its is based in Dooradoyle. There is no hospital in the town center and the court has moved up next to the prison. There is one Women's clothes shop and a few mens one
Limerick City centre is nothing like Cork or Galway or even Dublin......Kid
Never heard of St.Johns ? There are HSE offices on Catherine Street and Henry Street also small mental health units all over the city. The maternity and Camillus are easily walkable from the city as is Joseph's. I know all this from experience.
Trying to claim the city centre doesn't have a substantial council workforce or that Upper William St. where the court house is located is just pure lies or someone very very out of touch as to what constitutes the city centre.
Given that BEMU EIS deferred to “Q2 2027” thanks to the battery issue, it might be nip and tuck to make that happen, since now the existing fleets will need to bridge some gaps in 2026 rather than be in maintenance/refurb.
SFPC are tendering for construction of a rail siding and container yard at Foynes Port
https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=6905215
I know all this too from experience and you still wont convince me. Unless you are relaying the old cement factory line and put it at the back of the Regional (not a big move), get the Crescent that way as well , and run a triangular spur from the Ennis line up to UL along the Shannon . , while your at it run a spur to Shannon Airport too, put a triangle in at Hurlers cross and then it actually makes more sense as you've linked Galway, Shannon Airport, UL, UHL, Limerick
But thats extreme crayonism
Far as I can see this is all just to access TEN-T funding end of story but thats OK , who knows there might be a proper freight flow again
Surely this is a positive step…? It at least gives a little more confidence than a 40km long siding with no run around. Or is this more money being thrown into the fire? Is there a chance SFPC are in the process of actually finding traffic for the line?
Foynes is 2nd biggest port in Ireland.
Also big plans for renewable energy in the future.
Great for Limerick and surrounding areas like North Kerry and Clare.
Can't find any planning references to this. Was it included in the original application to reinstate the line ?
This is getting boring … Kids
Jack Fitzgerald's isn't moving. I assume you're talking about the one on the Dock Road. That's a warehouse/distribution centre.
Mentions the possibility of passenger services for the Ryder cup.
You probably missed it as there's a plethora of off topic posts (an issue which I'm guilty of being part of), but Mary Considine, Irish Rails new CEO, confirmed last week that a temporary station was to be built at Adare for the Ryder Cup.
I'd love to know exactly how much the taxpayers are shelling out per attendee for this nonsense.
The contribution to the hosting/running costs is already high eight figures, plus how much of the nine figure road project you want to assign to it.
I spotted that but this specifically mentions Foynes.
The Foynes line and Adare bypass pre-date the Ryder cup it's just that the timelines were pushed up. Similar how the Naas road was widened for the 2006 ryder cup.
Above from Irish Rail Facebook page…
I thought they were re-roofing the station house. Odd to roof the platform like that when most outside of the largest stations are open air.
Sligo train users gonna be well p1ssed 🤣
I'd say it was a protected structure so they might have been compelled to rebuild it.
