Track upgrade on course
Iarnród Éireann confirms plans for double track to Limerick and reopening to Foynes.
IARNRÓD Éireann (IE) chief executive Jim Meade confirmed to the Irish Parliament’s Joint Oireachtas Transport and Communications Committee on February 19, that plans to redouble the 17¼ mile single track from Killonan to Limerick Junction, singled in 1929, was advancing.
Mr Meade told the committee: “We currently have some funding from the National Transport Authority to get all designs and studies done and to get planning permissions, although we believe we will need very few because the work is on our own footprint.”