Iarnrod Eireann's Plans to Save Ailing Lines

[Thomas Ralph]

Originally Posted by ThomasJ

(by the way little off topic side note hope all is okay out your way!)

I'm fine; few local stations, bars, shops etc burnt out.

[ThomasJ]

Thats good!

Dont worry theyll soon get bored!

I feel for the people who have lost property etc.

[Mark Gleeson]

2751 and 2753 are allowed out on there own

53 seats, accessible toilet and bike rack

There was concern in the past that they would not trigger track circuits correctly so they now have a magic box under the floor to deal with that.

Cost wise there isn't much in savings really, in the case of Waterford Rosslare the allocation of costs was actually fair and did not allocate the train maintenance costs to the line

[Colm Moore]

The real costs in running Waterford-Limerick Junction (19? level crossings) and Killonan-Ballybrophy (27? level crossings) are staff costs and line maintenance.

Replacing the existing vehicles with a light(?) rail vehcile that could stop at every level crossing would remove those staff, but at the cost of new vehicles and infrastructure changes.

If these were to be light rail vehicles, you would still you'd have the problem of getting from Killonan to Limerick. While there are two tracks, using one exclusively for these vehicles could severly impact on Limerick-Limerick Junction-(Dublin) and Limerick-Galway services. Adding such vehicles on Limerick-Galway merely moves the problem to Athenry-Galway.

[dowlingm]

The amount of money spent on the Nenagh track (and still being spent) is going to cause a lot of disquiet if it is to be closed. Problem is, now it seems the bridges are in need of remedials too!