Limerick - Foynes Railway Project - November 2024

[@highlandersixtysix]

Your footage throughout this entire project has been outstanding.

[@dronehawk]

Thanks for saying so , much appreciated

[@Phil-oj5nr]

The only way to see this from NZ! We have never been to Ireland, so this helps us to enjoy your scenery, and your wider gauge track! We are 1067mm, so our gauge theoretically could fit between yours with two rails, not sharing a common rail!

[@dronehawk]

Greetings as always from Ireland , thanks for watching

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

Visitors to Ireland are always welcome 🤗

[@78mikehayes]

@@tomfitzpatrick7335especially from Aotearoa.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Coming on nicely 👍🏻 I hope it a success and more can be reinstated 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@gregdavis48]

Nice video love watching these and it is progressing nicely

[@batcollins3714]

Another great update, thanks Dronehawk

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

That's what I'm talking about!😀

[@davidkeogh8834]

Great coverage of the track layout and surrounding areas, well done and much appreciated,

[@df9959]

Lovely job! When you update next time, would it be possible to show the route all the way to the junction at the Limerick end?

[@dronehawk]

No can do . Limerick railway station lies within the Limerick city prison - drone exclusion zone , plus I cannot fly over a live railway. The foynes line is not handed over to Irish rail yet and is a construction project, so that's how I can cover the project for now .

[@briank10101]

​@dronehawk one of the lads in the prison yard might hitch a drone ride and escape. 😂

[@oisinmtom]

@@briank10101 The reason for the exclusion is drones could be used to drop items into the prison ie a phone or drugs, less so a worry of anyone escaping via them.

[@just-in6848]

Great to see it and from a different perspective from a drone ✌

[@stuartlast8156]

Progressing nicely ! Thanks for the update, much appreciated 👍👍

[@tomodell1948]

Great to see the double track approaching Adare station. Walked it many times around the Patrickswell Adare area back around 1990 when I remember a lot of woodland in between. No sign of it today.

[@johnheffernan1548]

Brilliant video, as a fellow drone operator i admire your low flying skills, you'd want eyes like "hawk" to watch out for wires, poles and hanging branches... well done....

[@dronehawk]

Thanks , yes the wires are becoming a big challenge , now that the red "goal posts" that marked their locations are being lifted.

[@fo1to]

Great footage ,railway +Greenway would be a bonus

[@PaddyAtLarge]

Excellent work as always👍

[@dronehawk]

Thanks

[@Jerónimo-n6n]

Great work as always, thank you Dronehawk.

[@MichaelBoedi]

Thank you for your professional work! Nice to see a railway line being rebuilt.

[@mick6ful]

Great update again. Thank you for sharing

[@dronehawk]

Thanks for watching!

[@EmeraldAudiovisual]

They have some real fast reversing peeps in Adare :P

[@dronehawk]

Ya , I was waiting for one of ye to comment on it .

[@alantuite459]

Brilliant update great progress on the new railway 🛤....hope our next government will keep it going and open up the rest of our closed railways... and take the majority of cars of our roads...

[@Train-LCI-Spotting]

Smashing work there lads👍👍

[@JRAR24]

HAHA! You’re not wrong lol

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

I'm so proud of this project

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

I'm so proud of this project

[@78mikehayes]

In a respectful nod to Limerick , seeing as your channel name is Dronehawk, the soundtrack should be limericks finest the rubber bandits and spastic hawk. Enjoying these updates by the way . Very well put together

[@JohnODwyer-f3j]

Great update -loved the car reversing at speed at the crossing

[@aaronweyl2272]

Happy to see country has now able to rebirth of that railway line hasn't been touched over 20 years ago. Wish Northern Ireland could do same thing.

[@GregAllenIRE]

Much appreciated.

[@NikCan66]

Fantastic video

[@paulbelfastlimerick]

I'm from Limerick and I am back living here now. I have no link with any particular party but watching that footage, you can see that there has been plenty of investment in motorways, railways, industrial infrastructure and of course public transport in recent years but some politicians will still plead the poor mouth. You can also see how much the land improves as you head towards the city. On the technical side.... It is good to see the 800 m loop has been laid just to the west of Adare station. I am not sure if they have land reserved there for a new station should that happened in years to come. It's also clear that those who constructed the original under-bridges seem to have made provision for double tracking of the line but I am not fully sure if this is the case with the motorway under-bridges (M21 and M69, I presume). It'll be interesting to see the track work at Limerick Check too.

[@dronehawk]

Can't drone near Limerick Station due to the proximity of Limerick Prison .

[@TokyoNightGirlLofi]

👍! ! ! 💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@FilmingCork]

Like the new intro,great video as always.

[@dronehawk]

Thanks

[@michaeldoyle7078]

Brought a lot of the stone over the last year and a bit to it a fine job

[@dondomingo6578]

A nice combination of beautiful Irish countryside and infrastructure upgrade. If the port project surpasses expectations, I hope they won't have to come back and rip up the landscape to lay another track.

[@briank10101]

The concrete railway sleepers are like dominos. Just hope someone doesn't keale over the first one after doing a dare with someone and suffer the wrath of the contractor, after they all topple. Also, I hope Patrick's well. Anyone, know how does Abbey feel? Is she feeling foyne? 😂

[@RYNT1157]

Great progress on the line , i think a loop should be put in at Ballingrane so if the line gets busy there will be plenty of crossing points. A line speed of 80 to 90 mph should be achievable on this line providing a fast passenger service to Limerick. Fantastic video as always.👍👍

[@apearse91]

Love this! Does anyone know how the line enters Colbert Station? Are they rebuilding the bridge over Carey's Road?

[@dronehawk]

No change to Careys bridge , and no passengers services planned from Colbert . Should they be introduced they'll just reverse the 400m into the Station

[@SadikMurshed]

I want to see through your video the scenes of ongoing beautification scheme in dunkettle.

[@dronehawk]

I'll do it spring next year .All the samplings have no leaves this time of year .

[@johnpower-m5o]

Very good - thank you very much! A commentary as to who is doing the construction work - why is it being built now - great for the local population - but has it anything to do with importing freight from the US - hopefully not gas or oil extraction from fracking.

[@dazzer273]

Was this line in operation or is it the regeneration of a historic line?

[@Jerónimo-n6n]

The line closed to passengers in 1963, freight traffic ceased in 2000 and the last maintenance train ran in 2002. The line was "mothballed" (polite term for left to rot). It is a complete rebuild of the line and the river bridges.

[@tomfitzpatrick7335]

Wait, I thought they're building a loop line at Adare🤨

[@twinboo529]

You’ll probably have plenty of railway construction projects to document when they start working on the All-Island Strategic Rail Review’s recommendations!

[@dronehawk]

I'll be old and gray by then

[@maltipoomadness8807]

Does anyone know what the depot at Foynes will look like? Was trying to find plans, etc but couldn't find anything about it

[@Jerónimo-n6n]

Nothing planned. It's a freight line only so no passenger facilities are planned and there are no freight customers identified as yet so no unloading facilities will be designed or constructed until they have a clear idea what freight (if any) is to be carried on the line.

[@maltipoomadness8807]

Thanks ​@@Jerónimo-n6n Crazy, didn't know that they have zero customers in the pipeline. I would have thought that a business case would have identified this prior to building. Is the reopening of the line just to facilitate expectations of the TEN-T strategy?

[@peterincork3121]

@@Jerónimo-n6n Would it be of benefit if the Tarbert LNG facility goes ahead ?

[@steeviebops]

@@maltipoomadness8807 There's a big part of me that suspects that Adare's hosting of the 2027 Ryder Cup is the real reason behind this rebuild. The last time Ireland hosted it in 2006, there was a massive expansion of the N7 Naas Road to accommodate it. Shannon-Foynes Port Company have been lobbying for this for years, but I think the Ryder Cup gave the government a reason to do it.

[@anthonylennon9756]

@@steeviebops

[@Clarkgravel]

Great flyover. Forgive the stupid question, but why single line?

[@dronehawk]

Not at all , line was originally a single line , and by replacing like for like, it greatly sped up the planning permission required. Also, to double track it (for which predicted traffic volumes won't require ) would mean totally rebuilding the bridges and abutments and closing the N69 for months to replace the single track underpass beneath it

[@samnicholson5051]

Single track is fine up to one train an hour or so at that length. I don't know if there'll be that many freight trains, probably not.

[@dronehawk]

@@samnicholson5051 Design spec is for 12 trains in a 10 hour period . Weather the line ever sees that kind of traffic remains to be seen

[@eamonnharlin9231]

Why only one track

[@dronehawk]

Planning only allowed for replacing like for like

[@itjustlookslikethis]

@@dronehawk Oh, but what happens if weekend steam wants to return? All the stations are still there. It appears the original "right-of-way" could easily accommodate two tracks, as evidenced by the bridges. I'm just a Yank from Los Angeles. There's plenty of "light-rail" construction in Southern California right now. Not to mention "the high-speed train to nowhere" You Brits have it made.

[@dronehawk]

@@itjustlookslikethis Us Brits ? We kicked them out over a hundred years ago . This is the Republic Of Ireland . The Brits are busy with their own train to nowhere HS-2 project. As for the double line , yes the stone arch road bridges could easily accommodate two tracks but not the 3 original single width viaducts.