High Speed rail in blue linking up major cities/towns to Dublin + a regular "ring line" looping the island.

by D-dog92

33 comments

  1. So Dublin centric?

    You need Limerick to Waterford, Cork and Tralee.

    Probably don’t need the Connemara line.

  2. I see you’ve managed to incur *massive* CPO costs by driving straight through built up areas, guaranteed 20-30 years of vicious court battles, *and* covered all of the thinly populated areas which will derive least benefit from rail links.

    Well done, very comprehensive.

  4. Looks better than proposal put forward by professionals.
    Your hired.

  6. If (and it’s a massive, huge IF) the government ever decided to build a high-speed network, its greatest challenge would be the local nature of our political system. Every politician in the country will be demanding a stop for some town in their constituency.

    High-speed rail needs long distances between stops to actually get to high-speed. For example, the high-speed line from Madrid to Barcelona is a tad over 500km, with the maximum number of potential stops between the two cities being five stops. Often there are no stops, or just one stop in Zaragoza.

    Can’t see that same proportional maximum ever being maintained on a high-speed line in Ireland, thereby making the whole exercise pointless.

    I would love to see high-speed rail in Ireland. I just don’t think it can ever be done. To be honest, I’m surprised the motorway network got built.

  7. One of those lines crosses right over my house. I firmly object to this proposal

  8. Suppose I want to get from Galway to Waterford?

    Also and for the last fucking time. There’s no viable route from Cork to Waterford on the coast

  10. So Dublin centric?

    You need Limerick to Waterford.

    Probably don’t need the Connemara line.

  13. To be honest seemingly as ireland in an empty mass in the centre, just having the ring itself would be interesting

  14. One thing I’d mention for those tempted to think we just need every bit linked together like this is that we already did this.

    Most of the lines people bemoan about being closed 60-100 years ago here were just speculative attempts at an expansive network that went more places than the population could have ever justified. And even when there was no widespread car ownership, no one used the lines and they were unprofitable.

    Of course there’s also the school of thought that all but a small number of railways are unprofitable anyway and that the role of the state should be to subsidise these regardless.

    But I can’t see a world where people would choose to take a train from Ballina to Westport across a nature reserve (that’s Nephin there, surely?) over just taking one on the slightly longer, existing route via Manulla Junction.

  16. I prefer this over the previously shared official version. A ring is really important.

  17. Notionally I’m on board, but it’s gonna take 10 years just to settle on the two colours chosen

  18. Lads why isn’t there a train from Navan to Dublin

  20. Any reason why a Tralee-Limerick-Dublin network is unimaginable?

  22. What’s your problem with Wexford and Belfast getting the slow lines? The cheek!

  23. Surely you’d want a purple line down the centre too.

    Plus, if you can just create it to be however you’d like, wouldn’t you just have a train station in every town?

    And then each town connected to each other and also a high speed city line.

    Then a subway/metro in Dublin and maybe some of the other big cities (Cork, Galway, etc.)

  27. Just get a car so the government can keep milking, jeez look at this guy and his reasonable propasal, the audacity! /s

  30. Waterford to Dublin via Kilkenny and Carlow needs to stay

  31. Its the impressive bridge from Oranmore to Kinvara that has sold me on this. Get it done.

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