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Analysis: Ireland's All-Island Strategic Rail Review

Ireland’s All-Island Strategic Rail Review has ambitious designs to transform and develop the countries’ rail network. Philip Haigh examines the facts and figures.

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Iarnród Éireann 2724 waits at Gort with August 11 2010’s 0640 Galway-Limerick, as 2711 vacates the single line with the 0600 Limerick-Galway. This section of line had just reopened as the first phase of a project to restore Ireland’s Western Rail Corridor. Subsequent phases, such as Athenry to Claremorris, fell victim to economic challenges but are being put forward once again by the All-Island Strategic Rail Review. DAVID THROWER.Rail passengers in Ireland could treble in number by 2050 if the two governments deliver the recommendations of their All-Island Strategic Rail Review.




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