Limerick to Foynes M21 project (incorporating Adare bypass & rail line reinstallation)

[TreatyStones]

I’d amazed if they didn’t bend over backwards to get someone using the line. I’d 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.

[Julio_Geordio]

If speed isn’t an issue it might work. Shortage of truck drivers too. What even comes into Foynes these days? Coal?

[TreatyStones]

Animal feed I think is the big one

[habanerocat]

@myboyblue

@Julio_Geordio

@myboyblue

Will you still get to see the beautiful parts of Cork?

I prefered Old Two Pot House

New Twopothouse? Ah, yes, New Twopothouse. I once knew a girl who lived in New Twopothouse. Long time ago, when I was a young man. Not a day passes I don’t think her and the promise that I made which I will always keep. That one perfect day in New Twopothouse.

Was she a Bean Garda?

[Watchyourtoes]

@Julio_Geordio

If speed isn’t an issue it might work. Shortage of truck drivers too. What even comes into Foynes these days? Coal?

Grain, Oil, molasses, wind turbine parts, slack, Wood chippings. Some set up below there.

[Massey]

Fertilizer for Gouldings

[LionelRitchie]

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?

[Watchyourtoes]

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.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Grain

[balbec]

Coke

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

You have seen your old colleague who is running the show?

[balbec]

Who’s that now?

[Aristotle]

@TreatyStones

There will be nothing getting loaded or unloaded in Foynes. The project will be a white elephant. It was just a relatively short stretch of track that allows the Greens to say they are “reopening the rail lines”

I don’t know… the port themselves pumped a fair bit of money into preparatory works to get the railway re-opened a good few years ago (that’s on something they don’t own).

So they obviously think they’re going to benefit from it in some way; they’re raking in the cash already.

[TreatyStones]

My limited understanding is having a rail link is a qualfying criteria to being rated as a certain level port (i think it’s 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.

[Aristotle]

That makes sense.

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

I got excited. For a minute. The road archaeologists have been digging in the parish for two years. Our time had finally come………’The Ardagh Chalice’, ‘The Book of Kells’, and now ‘The Croagh Brooch’.

Then I read the cuntin thing was found in Adare.

1,200 year-old brooch pin latest treasure uncovered during Adare bypass works

[Massey]

I’d say that’s across the road from the vets down the Kildimo road on top of the hill, they’ve been scraping away there for ages

[Julio_Geordio]

If twas found in Rathkeale it would have claimed adare anyway

[Biff_Egan]

What’s the expected completion date for this. Only heard wishy washy estimates relating to the Ryder Cup

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

@Massey

I’d say that’s across the road from the vets down the Kildimo road on top of the hill, they’ve been scraping away there for ages

Yes that’s part of it. the townland follows the Maigue, it’s all along its eastern bank, extending up from the N21 bridge up as far as the Kildimo road. The cul de sac that comes out onto the main road across from Adare Manor Golf Club entrance, all the houses down that are Ardshanbally.