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Unread 03-08-2010, 20:25   #4
zag
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You see, this is where the ordinary passenger like Sean and myself get confused . . .

What it looks like to Joe Public is that they had a station (a "mainline terminus" if you will), with tracks and a roof on it. You know, like a real station that you see in the movies.

Then for some reason they decided to move the business end of the station out to a part that doesn't have a roof on it. On the rare occasion that it rains in Ireland the customers wanting to board the train have to walk to the bit of the station without a roof and get wet.

Then they thought "hang on a second, we don't need these bits of track under the roof any more, let's take them up and save money."

Next, someone will say "hang on a sec, we've got this bit of roof with no track under it, let's get rid of it and save some money. Or maybe the lads can park their cars there."

It just seems from looking at it that the steps being taken are retrograde. Instead of replacing the life expired points they are taken out. Why weren't they replaced ? If it comes down to cost then how come we don't end up de-comissioning every piece of infrastructure instead of replacing it. Of course it costs money - infrastructure does.

As for the bit about needing access to the car park . . . c'mon. This is a railway station with an under-utilised ex-freight yard. Looking at the online maps there seems to be a large amount of space surrounding it to the north - do they really need to access it via the one key building they have ?

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