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Cars + Buses

Cars.

There were about 10,000 of them in Ireland in 1915. There are about 2 million of them today.

So this picture has some inaccuracies. While the lines from:

•Drogheda to Navan

•Waterford to Rosslare

•Along Lough Neagh

still exist as tracks, they have been disused for several years.

Additionally, the line between Mullingar and Athlone and the branch to New Ross no longer exist, and commuter tracks to Cobh and Midleton are not shown.

Heavy goods vehicles.

Basically none of Irelands train networks outside of the dart were built for and run for passenger traffic.

They were built, like all the ones britian for the movement of goods.

In Ireland those goods were mainly livestock, grains, beet, beer etc.

Like take the Dublin to Athlone line, once it opened it killed the canal transport industry on that route.

Same happened with HGVs from the 30s/40s on killing the railways.

And even looking at the alignments, there would be zero point in reopening many as they just don’t go in a direction that makes sense for passengers.

Your own private train that goes exactly where you want it.

Oh and Ireland moved from a distributed rural economy which needed an expansive rail network to gather exports to the main ports to one than no longer needs that system to distribute a smaller and smaller percentage of gnp.

“Forward thinking” 😂

While the rest of Europe was busy building public transportation the Irish thought it’s a good idea to copy the US instead 😂 And to this day they are paying for this mistake.