DART+ (DART Expansion)

The yard was rearranged, and a new freight terminal built. They didn’t just remove the sidings.

Does anyone know if this is just the preparatory paperwork stage or will they require physical possession soon? Any previous experience of this process ? Thanks

Parts of gardens being taken to make room for the new track. Dont think anyone has to move out for the work.

When the new Spencer Dock is built what is the plan for Docklands apart from the station been taken down will Irish Rail keep the rail infastructure for parking trains or do CIE Group have there eyes on it to develop apartments?

8100 trains aren't getting ETCS. When ETCS is up and running, ATP and CAWS will still be in use, for a certain period, before it's switched off. While ETCS will be more reliable, it's also going to slow trains down.

ETCS will reduce journey times on DART services as the current signalling setup is based on worst case braking performance, ETCS figures out where the next red signal or speed restriction is, does the math based on the trains braking performance, length etc and computes the speed profile to keep safe.

Current system really can only command 30/50/75/100kph, ETCS can command any speed

So currently you approach a yellow signal about 250-300m out the system enforces 50kph, then about 250-300 for the red signal you get 0kph and crawl forward. Under ETCS about 400m from the red signal the system will start to warn about a need to slow down and then will start to brake to come to a walking pace ahead of the red signal. Thats a huge change

Between Bray and Greystones its worth ~90 seconds

Sub-surface rights are not always a given thing in other countries. That's the vast bulk of whats being obtained.