Last night's meeting in Wellingtonbridge - Waterford Roslare line

Partizan

I couldnt make it to Wellingtonbridge last night but if anyone was there, what happened? any news?

Judgement Day

No news on Save the Rail's Facebook page but what news is anybody expecting. :rolleyes:

nunn351

Judgement Day wrote: »

No news on Save the Rail's Facebook page but what news is anybody expecting. :rolleyes:

FB update :

Hi Everyone sorry about the delay in reporting on last nights meeting (two emergencies came up).
The meeting went well and we have decided to conduct surveys to see what the demand on the line now is and also to see what times people would like. We have a number of people from the meeting who have volunteered to help conduct the survey. Once that is done we will call another meeting to inform people of the findings. Thanks everyone for your support to date and again apologies for the delay in the update.

The private operators are waiting to see how we get on and may come on board as things progress and possibly provide capital for us. The service would be run BY the community For the community

corktina

prediction: The survey will show that virtually everyone wants the line to be re-opened....:rolleyes:

Judgement Day

prediction: No matter what local people say the line will not reopen.

Bonus_Pack

The vast majority of residents in the area, despite giving lip service, would probably not use the service even if it was restored. Sure no-one used it in the first place anyway.
SWIFFTs campaign, like most other facebook campaigns is more about promoting SWIFFT themselves than about restoring the railway. A bit like the whole Kony 2012 affair.
But anyway, the nail in the line's coffin is thebarrow bridge -too big, decrepid, and to expensive to maintain or replace.
In any case CIE will see that no private operator will move in, sure the only 1600mm stock an operator could have used is now withdrawn and may be scrapped and new stock is out of the question entirely.
Anyway, rail is all about poulation density, one thing south wexford does not have.
Maintenance and weed spraying will become less and less frequent and the line will uiltimately end up in a similar state to Foynes or Athlone-Mullingar.

SWIFFT are flogging a dead horse with this one. Better off trying to save LJ/WD or the Nenagh lines instead, at least they have some kind of hope left, but not much.

The only operation that has any chance is a heritage railway at one side or other of the Barrow bridge, but not over it for the aforementioned reasons of cost. And probably not the Waterford side as there is already a heritage railway there adn there's not a market for 2 heritage railways.

end of the road

Bonus_Pack wrote: »

The vast majority of residents in the area, despite giving lip service, would probably not use the service even if it was restored.

possibly

Bonus_Pack wrote: »

Sure no-one used it in the first place anyway.

very few people knew their was still passenger services still running on the line anyway. sure their are those who wouldn't have used it, but their won't be a demand for something hardly anyone knows about.

Bonus_Pack wrote: »

But anyway, the nail in the line's coffin is thebarrow bridge -too big, decrepid, and to expensive to maintain or replace.

i agree.

Bonus_Pack wrote: »

In any case CIE will see that no private operator will move in, sure the only 1600mm stock an operator could have used is now withdrawn and may be scrapped and new stock is out of the question entirely.

absolutely. CIE will have the stock gone to the brakers faster then the train gets from dublin to cork just to make sure nobody else can have it. they don't want to run the line or any of the network for that matter but they will do whatever to make sure nobody else can.

Bonus_Pack wrote: »

Maintenance and weed spraying will become less and less frequent and the line will uiltimately end up in a similar state to Foynes or Athlone-Mullingar.

your probably right as CIE will find some excuse not to do it and the no trains authority will bend over backwardds to allow them not to do it.

Bonus_Pack wrote: »

Better off trying to save LJ/WD or the Nenagh lines instead, at least they have some kind of hope left, but not much.

CIE will make sure they can't save them either.

corktina

" CIE will have the stock gone to the brakers faster then the train gets from dublin to cork "

plenty of time to get funds together to buy some in that case:D