![]() Catering or its lack is also raised – maybe if catering wasn’t at bar prices… Observations Comparisons are made with New Zealand, which has a similar population but is three times the size, making freight more commercially viable. Other things raised include freight charges, which are set (broadly) at cost, but which therefore have little hope of competing with roadfreight. Additional capacity Limerick Junction-Waterford.A new curve at Limerick Junction for Cork-Waterford trains (should really have been provided in 1967 when the Mallow-Waterford line closed).Waterford-south of Wexford (it’s called Rosslare but they also mention a direct connection such as the one from Felthouse Junction to Killinick Junction, closed in 1913).Athlone-Mullingar (alas poor Midland greenway).New single line Portadown-Armagh-Monaghan-Clones-Cavan-Mullingar (original line joined the Sligo line at Inny Junction, between Multyfarnham and Mostrim/Edgeworthstown).Double track and new stations Belfast-Antrim (but not to Ballymena, which was double track until 1990).New stations Derry-Coleraine and spur to Limavady (branch line closed 1955).New single line Derry-Letterkenny (new alignment apparently via St Johnstone).New 100mph electrified double line Portadown-Omagh-Derry (diversions needed at Omagh and Strabane).Double track Maynooth-Mullingar, Portarlington-Athlone, Mallow-Killarney, Athenry-Galway.New 125mph line Hazelhatch (end of current 4 track section) to Portarlington. ![]() New connection Adamstown (Cork line) to Maynooth (Sligo line) to allow Sligo line trains to access Heuston bypassing the Maynooth local services.New cross-Dublin tunnel Spencer Dock-Heuston with DART and MetroLink connections (existing Connolly-Islandbridge line bypasses Heuston).Spur Dublin Airport-Clongriffin (Review specifically wants the direct connection to the mainline network rather than faffing around with MetroLink).New 125mph Drogheda-Clongriffin (pretty much somewhere between the R122 and M1 by the look of it) and four tracks Clongriffin-Connolly (where it counts). ![]()
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