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4 rail lines face possible closure

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    #92
    murphaph
    Registered Users Posts: 19,019 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    beauf wrote: »
    You can build housing any number of places but a port only in a limited number of places. A knee jerk reaction to housing crisis is not what's needed. They've done that in the rental market and made it 10x worse.
    Come on. Several other cities have moved their ports and redeveloped the land. Copenhagen is a good example. Even without the housing crisis I would favour a better utilisation of prime waterfront real estate.


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    #93
    andrewfaulk
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    murphaph wrote: »
    It's not about the paperwork. It's about the customs inspections causing the south east of England to become a lorry park, holding up even TIR sealed trucks just transiting through the UK to the continent.

    It will still be quicker to go Dublin-Holyhead or Liverpool- Dover or Hull- Calais or Hook of Holland than going Dublin-Rosslare-Cherbourg-drive to Germany/Netherlands/Belgium.. and road freight to Europe is about speed, otherwise a short sea container option is the way to go..

    The other thing your forgetting is that sea miles are cheaper than land miles, so the less driving the better and routing via Rosslare adds a lot of land miles on both sides


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    #94
    murphaph
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    Let's just wait and see how damaging Brexit is. the landbridge is obviously the preferable option but customs controls in Dublin/Holyhead/Dover/Calais could render it useless if Irish trucks sit in the traffic jams approaching these ports.


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    #95
    andrewfaulk
    Registered Users Posts: 438 ✭✭andrewfaulk


    murphaph wrote: »
    Let's just wait and see how damaging Brexit is. the landbridge is obviously the preferable option but customs controls in Dublin/Holyhead/Dover/Calais could render it useless if Irish trucks sit in the traffic jams approaching these ports.

    It is a case of wait and see, it's hard to foresee how it will work out.. but what all of that has to do with railfreight is beyond me! Rosslare doesn't handle containers and won't without a big investment and containers is what rail does.. road trailers and trucks are too big for the Irish rail network.. so it's a moot point really, brexit might increase the amount of freight moving through Rosslare but it still won't be by rail


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    #96
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Mod: Can we return to closing a few railway lines. Start a new thread if you want to discuss the implications of Brexit on infrastructure.


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