Navan Rail Line

5 stations?

I wonder could somebody list them for me, thanks.

Feeder bus to M3 Parkway might be ok for people living in Navan within walking distance of a bus stop on the route. But a lot of the potential users of Navan rail line would have to drive to Navan and park, and then get the feeder bus, and then the train, with possibly another change in Dublin city centre to get to their ultimate destination. It's too much.

There would be significant numbers using a Navan North P+R train station.

Also significant numbers of new homes could be built if the train line was open, in Navan and along the route. This should resolve any concerns about the CBA.

A significant number of homes are already being built along the route.

i see Sean Canny is saying the WRC can proceed quickly as planning is not needed. Leaving aside the rights or wrongs of the Navan Route and new stations.

Could the state if the money and Upgrade design was in place just go straight to tender for relaying the old line and restoring Navan Train station without a RO?

Thomas Byrne TD posted this post earlier this week.

Rest assured some excuse will be found to delay it further.

Was there not a Consultant report around the time of covid that most of the orginal route was still in CIE ownership?

Have they weighed the benefits of altering the alignment at Kilmessan? Although using the old alignment would remove ~15 housing units and part of a hotel, it has the perk of all the roads it crosses already being grade separated from the line. The proposed alignment requires 3 new level crossings or, if they want grade separation (which they should), sizeable land works.

The proposed route can also be found above. I didn’t realise how much it deviates from the original route compared to the Clonsilla-M3 Parkway line. It seems a bit of waste to me — the L2202, L2205, L2209 and L8010 overbridges are all still extant (and have room for 2 tracks) but yet none of them are used by the proposed alignment. Would CPOing a house or two really be more expensive than engineering diversions/building new bridges from scratch?

Is this the actual emerging preferred route?? Brilliant if so, to finally have it.

Couple of things: Firstly, is the line definitely double track the whole way to Navan…? The line looks a bit narrow in some places - specifically on the M3 crossings - to be double track which would be incredibly remiss of them. Can anyone clarify that.

In terms of grade separation, it’s nice to see that most of the map contains groundwork stretching into most of the roads that cross the line, suggesting that the line might be fully grade separated. There are a few places where I’m not sure though.

Specifically, after it crosses the M3 on what appears to be an overbridge (…?) it then crosses the Navan link road on what again appears to be an overbridge, but correct me if I’m wrong. Does it then cross that smaller road at a level crossing? I suppose if there’s only one or two LCs where necessary than that’s not the worst thing. Otherwise would I be right in saying it’s fully grade separated?

In terms of the station, where is it likely to be here? North of the Trim Road seems like not a large enough space for a station so I suspect it’ll be south of it. It’s not too clear though, the line doesn’t look to be wide enough for two tracks, two platform, a building, and a car park…

I’m really glad they’re keeping the Navan North terminus station, I somehow never really believed they would build that, but very very glad they are.

I’m confused as to what’s going on here though. The bridge in the image is the beginning of the Kingscourt greenway. Is the station to be north or south of the bridge? It looks like south, due to the access road, but I presume the north stretch is a headshunt/unit storage area? It looks like they’re certainly trying to put track there anyway, because it seems they’re slewing the greenway for a short while. Any ideas?