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  • #652
    andrewfaulk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭andrewfaulk


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Is the reduction from 27 to 24 to 21 for comparison of performance or necessary operationally. If they drop any more the whole exercise will be pointless.

    The timber trail from 12 to 18?, no tests since. Not happening anymore?

    21 is likely what will be operated on the service, the terminal will only fit 21 wagons..

    Not sure about the timber


  • #653
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,578 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    When you think about it,until recently Waterford, cork and dublin container ports were all linked by rail, and we had a really crap road system,
    How did we not end up with a really good container freight rail system... I mean the crane in Cork could have unloaded directly onto a Dublin bound train, which could have headed directly to Dublin freight Yard to unload onto a truck.
    But that ship has long sailed...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #654
    goingnowhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    Markcheese wrote: »
    When you think about it,until recently Waterford, cork and dublin container ports were all linked by rail, and we had a really crap road system,
    How did we not end up with a really good container freight rail system... I mean the crane in Cork could have unloaded directly onto a Dublin bound train, which could have headed directly to Dublin freight Yard to unload onto a truck.
    But that ship has long sailed...

    We did it was called Bell Lines who shipped containers island wise mainly by rail. The only port with direct lift on/off was Waterford. The direct curve at Kilkenny was reopened specifically to support the freight traffic.

    Bell Lines collapsed in 1997 and the single customer required for the scale to make it work was no more.

    Lots of finger pointing but most freight ceased because the company involved ceased trading, not because it went to road.


  • #655
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    The avoiding curve at Lavistown was a new build as there was nothing there previously.

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