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Rail Network Under Threat In Northern Ireland.
WHILE billions of pounds are being committed to revitalise railways in mainland Britain, the 340km broad-gauge network in the province of Northern Ireland faces an uncertain future that could lead to at least part of it being mothballed.
A task force considering four options for the future of Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) is due to report soon. But Eurotrack Ireland, a company trying to arrange a finance package to privatise NIR, believes the task force has already made up its mind. "The options do not include privatisation despite previous government commitments, and we think they have chosen the option to mothball part of the network," commented Mr Bob Pue, a former marketing manager with NIR, who now is now chairman of Eurotrack Ireland.
The task force consists of civil servants and representatives of Translink, which controls public transport in the province. The other options are: funding to upgrade and develop the network; bringing the network up to basic standards; and closing virtually everything except the Northern Ireland section of the Belfast-Dublin line, which is one of the European Union's TransEuropean Networks corridors.
Background to the present, rather negative, situation is a report by consultants, AD Little, which made 123 separate recommendations costing [pound]183 million over 10 years in March following a number of accidents in earlier years. NIR currently receives an annual subsidy of about [pound]10 million and makes an operating loss of [pound]1.5 million. It operates only passenger services ...
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