Waterways Ireland have advised a 4 week closure of the towpath between Lock 12 and Hazelhatch on the Grand Canal, to facilitate site investigation works in conjunction with the proposed greenway extension from Lock 12 to Hazelhatch.
This could work on the South Wexford line, except that the national transport company in Ireland regards its primary purpose as property development and not public transport provision.
Irish Rail have released a promotional video about Inchicore Works in Dublin in this, its 175th year.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland has announced “Stage 1” funding for a greenway from Greystones to Wicklow along the coast (a location shared by the railway line from Greystones to Wicklow).
In an era when other arms of the State are screaming “climate change” and promising sea level rises, why is the State paying for infrastructure that another arm of the State maintains will be under water in the mid term future?
I have added a page to the site, which is a WIP, being a list of industrial heritage monuments in Ireland.
I have defined these as memorials, plaques, graves and bridges named after a specific person.
Longer term, each of these will be added to the Gazetteer and linked off the relevant map.
DublinLive.ie has a feature looking at the Guinness Brewery in the 1950s, including images of the building that is now the Storehouse.
The former railway station in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, was used as a secondary school for many years but ceased to have this function a long time ago as a purpose built school replaced it.
Shannonside are reporting that construction work on redeveloping the complex, to be used as community facilities, has commenced. These will see the complex used as a Digital Hub/Enterprise Centre, Arts Space, Youth Facility, Genealogy/Family Research Centre, Trail Head for the Cavan‐Leitrim Greenway and hard and soft landscaping of the attendant grounds as public open space.
Many years ago, when the Kildare Route Project was being proposed as Irish Rail’s Celtic Tiger vanity project, I (unsuccessfully) lodged an objection to same, suggesting that an alternative (and cheaper) method of improving capacity between Inchicore and Hazelhatch and Celbridge would be to 4 track the stations and have commuter trains pull into the loops at such stations to allow mainline trains to overtake.
I was out and about in Dublin yesterday, which included taking me to Clongriffin Station. The DART I was on pulled into the loop on the Down side of the station and waited. The reason for this – to allow a Belfast bound train to overtake.
Amazing what can be done when you don’t have access to taxpayers’ money to spaff up against a wall.
I spent yesterday riding the rails in Dublin – my first time on a train in over 2 years.
One of the things I noticed was this appalling act of virtue signalling (apologies for the poor quality – daylight was fading when I took this shot):
For the benefit of the slow of learning, there are over 30 studies on the effectiveness of facemasks which show that they make no difference – even where properly applied in a medical setting, never mind when improperly applied and re-used as is the case amongst the sheep.
RTE is running a series on their website called “100 buildings“, which is a select look at 100 Buildings of 20th Century Ireland.
One of the structures featured is the Poolbeg Chimneys in Dublin.