Fancy a new pad? Stationmaster's houses up for grabs.

gobnaitolunacy

http://www.cie.ie/images/vacant_property2013.pdf

Judgement Day

Isn't awful nonsense the way CIE still offer their property by way of tender - no possibility of corruption there. I've been on a tender list with them before and it's a joke. Why not place the properties with an estate agent? Better still, why not hold off on selling property when the market is on the floor? :rolleyes:

dregin

http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=664027 Not too shabby for €80k!

dowlingm

was the Cratloe land the old station? Couldn't build a station there now if you wanted with the bend I suppose.

gobnaitolunacy

dowlingm wrote: »

was the Cratloe land the old station? Couldn't build a station there now if you wanted with the bend I suppose.

Cratloe station is still there, looks like a private house now.
The land looks to be a short distance away in the Ennis direction, may have been a site of sidings or a ballast pit or something.

Edit: looked at the OSI mapviewer which dates from c. 1900 and there's nothing there, just an empty field!

Is the Dundalk yard/stores/offices what used be Barrack St. or part of the GNRI works?

davidlacey

it look like the works before you reach the station. Why do IE still have so much agricultural land and who would want to pay for any of those old good stores? state of them...

rainbowdash

well the one in Cratloe is on one side of the track, and on the opposite side is a narrow strip of land and then the road. An ideal site for a potential station if one was ever to materialise.

Seems a bit short sighted to be selling a potential station site.

gobnaitolunacy

davidlacey wrote: »

it look like the works before you reach the station. Why do IE still have so much agricultural land and who would want to pay for any of those old good stores? state of them...

May date back to when the line was built. Rather than buy a strip of land thru a landowner's estate they bought the entire field, whatever rump was left could be leased or sold afterwards.

davidlacey

Would be a very difficult question to answer but would there be much land like this still in CIEs possession or is it all nearly sold off already?

gobnaitolunacy

davidlacey wrote: »

Would be a very difficult question to answer but would there be much land like this still in CIEs possession or is it all nearly sold off already?

Only the CIE Property Dept could answer that. Even then there could be 100's of tiny parcels of land on or along closed routes that could (technically) still be CIE owned to this day.

dregin

I remember looking at a house on daft along the North Circular Road at the Phoenix Park end where the garden which ran along train lines was actually leased from CIE.

dowlingm

rainbowdash wrote: »

well the one in Cratloe is on one side of the track, and on the opposite side is a narrow strip of land and then the road. An ideal site for a potential station if one was ever to materialise.

As I noted above, the platform would have to be curved as the track is - an accessibility no-no for stations not currently in service since it would mean varying gaps between doors and platforms.

EDIT: I think a few more have been added? There is 31.5 acres of agricultural land north of Ennis here. Not sure what it was for before, and they are only offering a lease. The OSI historic 25" says "liable to floods"...

Victor

Some of the land may have been bought so they could close an adjacent accommodation crossing.

gobnaitolunacy

dowlingm wrote: »

The OSI historic 25" says "liable to floods"...

Like that ever stopped a housing development in the '00's

AlekSmart

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Like that ever stopped a housing development in the '00's

And it was an easier,less expensive,alternative to developing a Canal Boat Network.....