Capital Dock

lawred2 · 28-11-2018 3:46pm

failed pressure valve or something

these things happen

neris · 28-11-2018 3:53pm

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Given that Irish Rail regard the track over the river as a major limiting factor on their operations and expansion, how much would it cost ballpark to tunnel under the river, open up twice the number of tracks and then once there is a switchover, dismantle the loop line bridge? I don't know a couple of billion?

Not insurmountable if people had vision, but no doubt any figure it would cost would be considered laughable from the usual quarters, like trying to host the Olympics etc.

I would imagine the costs and disruption of tunneling from Tara Street to connolly would be very very expensive and very long in time and going by the way irish rail have done stuff in the past it,d probably be one big cluster **** aswell.

subpar · 28-11-2018 6:43pm

neris wrote: »

I would imagine the costs and disruption of tunneling from Tara Street to connolly would be very very expensive and very long in time and going by the way irish rail have done stuff in the past it,d probably be one big cluster **** aswell.

Its not just the strict distance between Connolly and Tara st that would require tunnelling

there would have to be a gradual rise and fall in tunnelling well beyond the stations in order to link into the existing track.

neris · 29-11-2018 1:35pm

subpar wrote: »

Its not just the strict distance between Connolly and Tara st that would require tunnelling
there would have to be a gradual rise and fall in tunnelling well beyond the stations in order to link into the existing track.

i know so they could be tunneling from anywhere around grand canal dock or pearse street to somewhere well after/before connolly just to accomodate the rise and fall into a tunnel

Nermal · 30-11-2018 1:01pm

subpar wrote: »

Its not just the strict distance between Connolly and Tara st that would require tunnelling
there would have to be a gradual rise and fall in tunnelling well beyond the stations in order to link into the existing track.

So we get to have a little Dublin 'High Line' either side of the Liffey in addition to getting our view back? Where do I sign?

wakka12 · 30-11-2018 1:20pm

Its not just any view it would be bringing back to life by removing the track over the river ...it is the dublin view

cgcsb · 03-12-2018 11:39am

wakka12 wrote: »

Its not just any view it would be bringing back to life by removing the track over the river ...it is the dublin view

Given that the state does not invest serious money in public transport infrastructure, such an idea is extremely far fetched. At present Dublin is still operating an infrequent commuter service based on diesel locos, an archaic practice ended in the 1960s across Europe. Replacing the loop line with a tunnel is getting way ahead of yourself, we still don't have an integrated ticketing system, something the rest of Europe has enjoyed since before the outbreak of the second world war. The notion that we have spare resources for such a project, that only has the benefit of 'restoring a vista', is just laughable.