[PR] Cork - Cobh Line reopens

Victor

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=437

Cork - Cobh Line reopens: normal service resumed by Corporate Communications

Cork-Cobh line customers are advised that the line has now reopened, and full services have resumed, following improvement works that have taken place over recent weeks.

Iarnród Éireann welcomes customers back to the service, and apologises for the inconvenience caused by these essential works.

The works included:
- the upgrading of 11 platforms at 6 stations along the route.
- Laying of cable ducting for signalling, electrical and telecoms.
- The constuction of abutment for the new overbridge at Woodhill, including a retaining wall at the approach of the new bridge.
- Coastal defence work and landslip protection works at key sites along the route.
- the installation of a water main for Cork County Council.
- Signalling adjustments to facilitate the re-opening of the Cork-Midleton railway line.

Nostradamus

They did a class job of upgrading the line too. Very impressive.

dowlingm

apparently the work also included disconnection of the western approach to the freight yard from the mainline (the eastern one was already done). That doesn't look well on a PR fluff though. I wonder if the gantry has been put on ebay... errr... etenders yet.

Ste.phen

Surely there's a market for rail freight between the big cities? What's the problem with it?
Aren't there rail cars that can hold 40foot containers? Is there a perceived frequency of strikes within CIÉ?

deRanged

I wish they'd upgraded the footbridges for wheelchair users and buggies/prams and so on. They gave the existing ones a quick lick of non slip paint and that's all as far as I can see. And still no ticket machines in the unmanned stations.
Other than that I'm delighted to have the trains back.
Times like this really show the value of a train versus busses.

paulm17781

Ste.phen wrote: »

Surely there's a market for rail freight between the big cities? What's the problem with it?
Aren't there rail cars that can hold 40foot containers? Is there a perceived frequency of strikes within CIÉ?

Trucker union is very powerful.

We are a small country.

Freight has to get from depots to final destination (using trucks)

CIE.

I'm sure there are many others. I'm not against rail freight but I don't see it happening here.

Chris_533976

They didnt mention that they almost destroyed the main route into Cork from the east by collapsing the road into the river

dowlingm

Chris, in fairness, wasn't that the guys building the new bridge and not IE if I recall correctly?

Chris_533976

That bridge is a bridge across the railway as far as I know, so its under IEs control

dowlingm

Fair enough, I was under the impression it was a Lee crossing.