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In live in Ireland where there is hardly any rail, despite once having the densest network in Europe. Would love to see further state investment here as well. I
by relistan 2y ago
In live in Ireland where there is hardly any rail, despite once having the densest network in Europe. Would love to see further state investment here as well. Ireland is small enough that it should be possible to be in Dublin from either Cork, Galway, or Limerick in an hour.
- pm215 2y agoMmm, when I took a train based holiday in Ireland a few years back the rail map did strike me as rather withered. You wouldn't really want to try to go from Ballina to Sligo by train these days, although you technically could...
- rsynnott 2y agoThere’s a plan to build a Cork-Dublin-Belfast high speed (300km/h standard) line, but it seems unlikely to happen. There’s a more feasible-looking plan to upgrade Dublin-Cork to 200km/h (high-ish speed?) via improvements to the existing line (which currently caps out at, at best, 160km/h or so, but much worse in many parts); that seems likely to happen now. This would bring it from 2h30m to maybe 1hr30, which would be a big improvement. There’s an argument that Ireland just isn’t physically big enough for ‘true’ (TGV/ICE-type) high speed, though I’m not totally convinced by it; with a 300km/h line it’d be less than an hour journey, making commuting borderline feasible.
- igleria 2y agoAs someone looking to move to notDublinButClose, I hope you get that wish!