There must be a better way for railfreight though. Its sickening to be caught in places like Gort behind countless container, cement and fertilizer lorries, I know Gort station is closed but surely there is a market for somebody to lease a lot of the dead yards like Ennis, Athenry etc. and make money from bulk buying cement, fertilizer etc., getting it delivered to the yard in full train loads and supplying to local customers.
Apparently the yard in Tuam is full of fertilizer, I know I've seen fertilizer in the Ennis yard recently. How is it more economical to transfer the stuff on maybe 18 individual trucks instead of one train?
It appears to me that there is no will to get stuff back on the tracks and off the road.
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