The recently published Rail Project Prioritisation Strategy – 2025, the implementation plan flowing from the All-Island Strategic Rail Review, places renewed focus on passenger service…
Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail, the bilingual national carrier for freight and passenger services, has gone abroad for a large freight rolling stock order. The state-operated…
Iarnród Éireann (Irish Railways) has finished laying new tracks for the Limerick – Foynes freight railway. The 42-kilometre stretch of rail is part of an…
A historic level of damage was caused by Storm Éowyn. So much so, that it has been compared to the Great Storm of 1987, which…
Fewer freight trucks used the Channel Tunnel in the first quarter of 2024. The LeShuttle Freight trains carried just under 302,000 trucks between the turn…
Passengers from the southeast Irish port of Rosslare could be forced to change trains on the way to Dublin. Growing traffic from the port and…
Dublin gives an uneven impression of the health of Ireland’s railway network. Trams, busy commuter lines, freight and long-distance express trains all compete for space…
At Waterford in the Republic of Ireland, the scale of rail freight operations may not be quite as intense as Rotterdam or Felixstowe. However, within…
Iarnród Éireann (Irish Railways) has embarked on an ambitious project to reactivate the railway connecting the River Shannon port of Limerick with the open-sea port…
Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail, the Irish national railway company, will start tests on a freight locomotive retrofitted with a specialised internal combustion engine (ICE) hydrogen…
The publication of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review identifies a much-needed vision for rail freight across the island of Ireland. That’s the view of Logistics…
Campaigners and railway experts have applauded the transformative potential of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review. A consequence of that could see the electrification of Irish…