Iād amazed if they didnāt bend over backwards to get someone using the line. Iād imagine anything they transport will have to be loaded onto a truck at some point? The question is why would any transport company bother with unloading it onto or off a train for a portion of the journey.
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If speed isnāt an issue it might work. Shortage of truck drivers too. What even comes into Foynes these days? Coal?
Animal feed I think is the big one
Was she a Bean Garda?
Grain, Oil, molasses, wind turbine parts, slack, Wood chippings. Some set up below there.
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Fertilizer for Gouldings
Do they sand, potash, lime etc off there fke the cenent factory too? Or is that trans-shipped further down the river to factory itself?
Possibly sand, the lighter stuff gets brought in as far as the dock road where the cement tankers do be in and out like yo yos. All the railway sleepers were brought there to be shipped off to Germany for destruction I think.
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Grain
Coke
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You have seen your old colleague who is running the show?
Whoās that now?
I donāt knowā¦ the port themselves pumped a fair bit of money into preparatory works to get the railway re-opened a good few years ago (thatās on something they donāt own).
So they obviously think theyāre going to benefit from it in some way; theyāre raking in the cash already.
My limited understanding is having a rail link is a qualfying criteria to being rated as a certain level port (i think itās called T-Ten) by the EU. Being rated as such will unlock a whole other range of potential funding streams. So even if the rail link is loss making for them, it may prove beneficial in other ways.
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That makes sense.