Irish railway network in the 1920s was pretty amazing. We need it back, it would reduce the stress on student accommodation for one!
Irish railway network in the 1920s was pretty amazing. We need it back, it would reduce the stress on student accommodation for one!
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Dublin doesn’t have a metro either. What a broken country.
Most of those lines weren’t viable and the country was very poor for a lot of the time between 1920 and the 1990s (with a brief return from 2009 – 2012/2013)
The right is missing the track to Midleton and Cobh.
So students will sleep on the tracks?
Great idea
Now do the motorways.
But then we would have to listen to students complaining that they have to pay huge numbers for their tickets. Namely because such an infrastructure wouldn’t be viable.
I want high speed rail connecting every county town in Ireland.
Dublin should be no more than 45 mins from any point on the island.
I also want a station every 5km on the routes.
No fare should be in excess of €5.
And it should run every 15 mins, 24/7.
It can be done, all we need is some initiative and political will.
Good ol Todd Andrews
Rail worker here, we desperately need new rolling stock before even thinking of expanding current lines or opening new ones, the stock we have now are overcrowded and starting to show their age
It’s gonna cost upwards of 230M just to protect the rosslare line from collapsing into the sea (why tf they didn’t just build it inland is beyond me)
That’s getting better, since we’re regressing.
Rail isn’t profitable in Ireland. Pretty much the whole thing is loss making. Scrap the lot and pour it into roads.
Don’t think it will. The bus that’s brand new, free for ops completely empty. Kids use if sometimes. Can’t see us leaving private cars.
Trains are cool.
I remember reading Robin Flower’s The Western Island and in the opening chapter he’s talking about getting the train to Dingle. And I couldn’t believe it
It’s my turn to post this next week.
But sure then they would all be complaining about the environmental damage to fields and stuff as they lay track. Or the use of diesel to power them.
The 1920 map is missing the Galway to Clifden line which stopped in 1935.
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Say what you want about the brits, but they built a good railway.