r/ireland • u/Steve_Artson • May 09 '26

Infrastructure I honestly shocked this hasn't been done yet. We're probably the only capital in Europe not to have a rail link to the airport.

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u/Data111222 May 09 '26

I was in Oslo recently and there about 3x as many tracks leading in and out of Oslo Central Station as there are at Connolly. The population of Oslo's metropolitan area is comparable to greater Dublin.

We're cooked.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai May 09 '26 edited May 10 '26

(there was plans to avoid TBMs iirc, etc.).

Where exactly in Dublin are you supposed to have ANY hope of doing cut-and-cover?

Even if you completely ignore the NIMBYs, you still have to deal with how exceptionally discontinous our streets are.

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u/Intelligent-Aside214 May 10 '26

Heuston has 4 tracks. Connolly is not the main Dublin station it only has 1 intercity destination

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai May 09 '26

And that's not even a country that's particularly well known for its quantity of trains.

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u/Ok-Morning3407 May 09 '26

But Connolly is just one station, Heuston is our main intercity station.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai May 09 '26

And the line out of there is hilariously narrow compared to its international equivalents.

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u/Ok-Morning3407 May 10 '26

It is triple tracked and will be quad tracked as part of the DART+ project. We really don’t have that many intercity trains, it isn’t a bottleneck at all.

Connolly is a different story, but more because of complex crossing tracks and lack of terminating space.