New Rail Freight Service between Ballina & Waterford

[Rob]

 

More freight trains to look at !!

 

RTE news : New rail freight service between Ballina and Waterford http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0514/1221539-ballina-waterford-freight-service/

[ttc0169]

Great news for railfreight in Mayo and Waterford 

073 is seen here arriving into Ballina freight yard  

 

[Dempsey]

Could we see reopening of any closed lines which would be a potential benefit to the network and rail travel as a by product? 

[Noel]

Good news, anything that takes diesel trucks off our roads has to be a positive thing for both traffic and climate action. Will this Ballina traffic get to Waterford via Dublin or via Limerick? If the latter could it increase justification for reopening Claremorris to Athenry for freight?

[airfixfan]

Is this new freight  traffic going via Kildare?

[DJ Dangerous]

You must have some set of legs on you if you're gonna be cycling down there to get some photos.

[josefstadt]

On 15/5/2021 at 4:57 PM, Noel said:

Good news, anything that takes diesel trucks off our roads has to be a positive thing for both traffic and climate action. Will this Ballina traffic get to Waterford via Dublin or via Limerick? If the latter could it increase justification for reopening Claremorris to Athenry for freight?

Noel, via Kildare.

[Rob]

Presume this Ballina / Waterford service hasn't started as yet even though it was scheduled for the end of June?

Wouldn't have thought the issues at Dublin Port and the IWT liner would have affected this.

Just that l am getting withdrawal symptoms not seeing container trains.... 

[spudfan]

When I looked at the photo I thought the man in the hi vis adjacent to the loco was holding a VERY long piece of wood!!!

Great photo for detail of a yard for modelling.

[DiveController]

6 hours ago, spudfan said:

When I looked at the photo I thought the man in the hi vis adjacent to the loco was holding a VERY long piece of wood!!!

When is the Men's Olympic Pole Vault being televised?

[jhb171achill]

7 hours ago, spudfan said:

When I looked at the photo I thought the man in the hi vis adjacent to the loco was holding a VERY long piece of wood!!!

Great photo for detail of a yard for modelling.

He can vault from there to Strabane goods yard, to see the CDRJC / GNR interchange sidings...........

[ttc0169]

16 hours ago, Rob said:

Presume this Ballina / Waterford service hasn't started as yet even though it was scheduled for the end of June?

Wouldn't have thought the issues at Dublin Port and the IWT liner would have affected this.

Just that l am getting withdrawal symptoms not seeing container trains.... 

The XPO liner is scheduled to begin in the next two weeks.