{"id":2210,"date":"2026-11-08T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2026-11-08T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:51:23","slug":"coastal-erosion-on-the-rosslare-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/coastal-erosion-on-the-rosslare-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal erosion on the Rosslare line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Irish Independent has an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/county\/wicklow\/we-are-now-a-couple-of-storms-away-fears-that-wicklow-erosion-could-sever-dublin-rosslare-railway-line\/a\/164014439.html\">coastal erosion at the Murrough in Wicklow Town.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the railway line to Wicklow Town was built, the Dublin &amp; Wicklow Railway foolishly built this along the coast from Dalkey to Wicklow &#8211; a decision which has had ramifications to this day as the sea does what the sea does and erodes the land on which the railway sits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, there have been multiple deviations of the railway &#8211; primarily on Bray Head and a long deviation inland from south of Killiney to north of Bray. In the 1970s, a 1 mile long section of the line from Greystones to Wicklow town was moved a short distance inland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The time for pussyfooting around the issue is over and there is a need to determine the longterm future of this line (in its present form, it doesn&#8217;t have one).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 years ago, I posted a suggestion on this <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/the-long-term-future-of-the-rosslare-line\/\">site<\/a>, which remains as valid today as it did then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Independent has an article about coastal erosion at the Murrough in Wicklow Town. When the railway line to Wicklow Town was built, the Dublin &amp; Wicklow Railway foolishly built this along the coast from Dalkey to Wicklow &#8211; a decision which has had ramifications to this day as the sea does what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}