Infrastructure

Plan to move Dart line inland from crumbling coast deemed too costly

Bray to Greystones route instead to stay in situ and be protected from coastal erosion through €230m series of projects

A proposal to move the train line between Greystones and Bray inland to protect it from coastal erosion was rejected by Iarnród Éireann and the National Transport Authority on the basis of cost and interference with people’s property

A proposal to move the historic train line between Greystones and Bray inland to protect it from coastal erosion was rejected by Iarnród Éireann and the National Transport Authority on the basis of cost and interference with people’s property, the Business Post has learned.

Instead, a €230 million series of projects known as the East Coast Railway Infrastructure Protection Projects will get under way in the coming years to implement onshore and offshore solutions that ...