Thread: The next IRRS London meeting - Modernisation of Irish Rail withOliver Doyle
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Old October 15th 08, 10:21 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default The next IRRS London meeting - Modernisation of Irish Rail with Oliver Doy
In article , (Paul
Rigg) wrote:

The density of traffic in most of Southern Ireland is such that
electrification would not be justified. A possible exception
might be up as far as Drogheda or Dundalk on the ex GNRI but modern
working methods would still lead to the Enterprise trains being
diesel throughout.

Similarly if Dublin-Cork was done there would still be a lot of
diesel working to Tralee/Limerick/Galway/Westport/Ballina/Waterford
as those lines only see a maximum of 4 or 5 trains a day. Not even
the SNCF would electrify them.

SBB/CFF/FFS might, mind! :-)

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Colin Rosenstiel
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