Your welcome

Your welcome

Coming next week ! If I spend anymore time editing on the pc i'll be divorced

Looking forward to it.

@@BC-jh6ln just as long as it is paving way for more train tracks in the area that could be returning possibly & new ones too possibly

Much appreciated

Many thanks

That's what we are all wondering.

They will find a way, they will because they will need to​@@dronehawk

The layout will be decided at the very end by the Port. Likewise, don't expect any announcements by Irish Rail on what and for who they'll be carrying. That will likely only happen when the freight is in active service, if at all, and both parties would have to agree to disclose. This is a commercial operation, not a PSO passenger service. Irish Rail don't have to disclose commercially sensitive contracts. Despite what the armchair idiots think; they're not stupid.

I don't think the traffic it will see will ever justify a double line , not to mention passing loops at the stations. They're is no talk of passenger services , just freight only. Also the N69 overpass and the single track bridges prevent double tracking .

No , there are zero plans for passenger services , and the line signalling is being set up to reflect that.

@@dronehawk yeah i guessed should have known are money wasn't going into anything that would help us we could have a really good lightrail set up

@@Flying_Shamrock "anything that would help us" Freight rail traffic is important in helping us, as a nation, to reduce road congestion and pollution as well as reducing injuries and fatalities on the road network.

It's for loading the rails onto the little train that carries them to the workmen at each end of the line once the sleepers are layed for track formation

@@tomfitzpatrick7335 cheers

As Tom said , it's temporary and will be removed when the track works done

@@dronehawk Yep, that's right DH, though I wonder what will become of that hard once those cranes are removed when the line's finished Do you have any ideas on that too DH?

No , nobody knows . And It won't be container traffic as Foynes doesn't have Gantry Cranes .

It will be container traffic and possibly bulk. The Port Masterplan is to have Neo-Panamax container ships on the East Jetty. Look up the 2041 Masterplan for the Port, but make sure it's the 2022 Review version, rather than the outdated one from 2013. There are too many critics giving opinions that they don't have a clue about. These same people would be the first to complain if these things weren't planned.

There are as of yet no guaranteed customers for this freight line, the government has left that to the end.

@@spacetweek I don't think it's the government that will be finding customers for the line but rather the Shannon Foynes Port Company in conjunction with Iarnród Éireann. That's how it happens today, except that it's currently between the Port Company (and the ship owners) and road hauliers.

Thank you so much for your generous support . As stated by others , no confirmed customers. The Government is working on the principle " Build it , and they will come"

Yes always , although the rail spur to Irish cement ran alongside for about 5 miles on the way out of Limerick

I read that the port is classed as "deep-sea" and apparently all EU deep-sea ports are soon going to be required to have a rail link as part of some directive or other, so I believe that is what spurred the project on. Although Arklow also has a deep sea port and no way of making a rail link to it so I don't actually know if this is accurate!

Agreed there doesn't seem to be anything by the way of sidings, rail access to the docks etc. And there doesn't seem to be room for any of them either??

found this in the Foynes Port Strategic Report so maybe it wil happen in time New rail sidings at the Port for freight will make cargo movements to and from rail cars competitive for medium and longer haul routes. This includes bulk solid cargo, break bulk, and containers. There is potential at the port to re-introduce the branch lines running parallel to the quay and develop a rail freight centre located within the port estate

Yes it's accurate, Ringaskiddy Cork is also deep sea but the directive from the EU only calls for rail links to be established to these ports only where it is feasible to do so .

@@Almex228 it's a pure waste of money will not do the business Ireland to small for rail

Yes, freight only.

@@odunadhaigh Hm, is that smart?🤔Looks like a beautiful train ride. 😉

@@arnomrnym6329 It was originally back whhen it was open calling at patrickswell kilgobin adare askeaton and foynes if the open the cement spur it could also service raheen and doradoyle with a station at the industrial park and or church or crescent shopping centre

@@Flying_Shamrock While your at it reopen the north Kerry line at Ballingarane Station and you could service Rathkeale too.

@@dronehawk that line was lifted if i remeber in 1978? i say a cab ride in foynes and the line was overgrown someone said the following year it was lifted

Maybe at some stage . Would like to do Mallow to Dungarvan one first , before that gets the dreaded greenway treatment

@@dronehawk greenways are very popular and successful in Ireland.

@@spacetweek Not if you want to run trains

@@davidfgeraghtyit’s not a contest. Let’s have trains on new straight alignments and turn old dead railways into cycleways

Yes but reopened for what?

There's a stronger argument for the likes of spain to do so with the french border and standard gauge AVE lines. We are an island with no border requiring gauge change. It would make a wider range of future rolling stock available due to the more popular guage but that's about it and it would be expensive and disruptive to do. Additionally while in the middle of the gauge and fleet changing role out, there would be reduced flexibility and resilience in the network as a train cant serve as a replacement if its a different gauge than the broken down train to be replaced.

They will offload containers from a ship at Foynes, put them onto a train and take them to Dublin. The ship will then sail to Dublin, where the containers will be put back on the ship and returned to Foynes by sea, where the whole process will be repeated!

@@andrewhotston983 🤣

@@andrewhotston983 Where's the container Crane in Foynes ? Even that plan isnt feasible

@@dronehawk Dummy containers made of polystyrene. Easily handled by a couple of guys with wheelbarrows and a plank.

@@dronehawk When the rail sidings are configured and built within the estate of the Shanon Foynes Port Company, then we can expect to see the emergence of systems to transfer freight from ship to rail. Making such ship to rail transfers was feasible in the previous incarnation of the Foynes railway and there isn’t, at this stage, a reason to believe that it won’t be feasible in the future. There are things yet to be done in this project, including, as has been pointed out before in the comments to your videos, the provision of suitable rail freight rolling stock for the cargos on offer.