defitzi
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j'accuse: Irish Rail of doing everything it can to close the Rosslare harbour -Waterford-Limerick railway.
A reason why IR dislikes the Rosslare-Limerick link may well that it inherited the line but it did not want it.
Irish Rail's current policies at Rosslare Harbour (IE doing everything it can to find reasons to close the link to Wexford,(no stops no stations) as well as the line to Waterford and Limerick, are, some people say, all part of a nefarious plan to rid itself of both lines. I
Closing the last few miles to the Harbour would get rid of the obligatory slow crawl (man with red flag syndrome) along Wexford's quays and the steep, slow climb from Rosslare Harbour.
Iris Rail has worked hard in the recent past, to downgrade both lines, by deliberately ensuring a lack of rail connections, and latterly, abandoning a brand-new foot passenger platform accesed rail terminal in favour of an internal link to shpys for car and truck freight. It believes it can convince the (ailing and cash-strapped) and near bankrupt Government which is desperate to save money, that Rosslare Harbour is is now a ripe candidate for closure.
Suspicions, most people say, are confirmed by the fact that Irish Rail's parent (holding) company, CIE, which owns the harbour is also the holdig company for Bus Eireann, whose services to Dublin and the rest of Ireland have been hugely increased in recent years also favours closure.
That, of course, many other people say, is because there are advocates in Government and elsewhere, who favour selling-off the Harbour (and therby shedding rail assets-encumberances) as a way of lowering deficits and helping re-fill the currently totally depeted depleted government coffers.
Of course, the network of new motorways throughout the land (some yet to be completed and all to be paid for by a bankrupt nation) has nothing to do with closing rail links.....or so some people say.
Now where has all this been seen and heard before?