don't know if this has been posted already. This was in last weeks edition from the meath chronicle dated 13th june 2007
http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/br...ne-701304.html
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THE planned reopening of Broadstone railway station in Dublin could well subvert the long-term reopening of the Navan rail link if Arrow services are based there to serve existing suburbs, according to the North-South Rail Link Group.
Group spokesman Damien Cassidy this week claimed that it had lobbied the Oireachtas Committee on Transport five years ago to reopen the station which was closed in 1931.
Broadstone would enable the reopening of the line to Dunboyne through the linking of the Liffey junction-Clonsilla line and this was part of the Transport 21 Plan, he said. He welcomed Transport Minister Martin Cullen’s agreement to preserve both Navan station and yard for future passenger use. “Our remaining worry is that Broadstone will be given over entirely to Arrow trains serving the present suburbs since Connolly (Amiens Street) is already congested.”
It would be “highly unfair” to hand Broadstone over to those areas, since that station was built to serve Meath and Cavan lines and had a close link to the Luas, he said.
The excuse had been given before when Iarnród Éireann claimed that passengers could not be brought from Navan to Drogheda as the Dublin-Belfast line was “too busy” already, Mr Cassidy added.
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