What They're Saying

In order to complete the network one old rail line would need to be reopened, that to Navan via Clonsilla and Dunshaughlin. There is, I believe, some danger that if, as has recently been suggested, this line is reopened, a false economy might lead to it not being extended as far as Navan.

-Dr. Garret FitzGerald 
Former Taoiseach

There is already a rail line to Navan from Dublin. When the Docklands station is opened, the people of Navan should demand a share in the line capacity into Dublin, rather than wait 15 years for a line to be re-opened to Navan.

-Dr. Martin Mansergh
18th Feb 2006

It's an issue for cabinet, not for consultants, an issue for ministers, not railway managers. Unless the government makes a clear political choice to promote this and other rail links as part of a national strategic approach to transport, it will never happen.

- John Bruton
Former Taoiseach
 

 Welcome to the Meath commuter rail campaign website

Meath on Track's campaign is an initiative with the ultimate aim of re-establishing a rail link to provide a passenger transport service between Navan and Dublin via Dunshaughlin and Dunboyne.

The Navan link is seen as the first phase of reinstating rail services between north-central Meath and Dublin, by way of the Navan-Clonsilla railway which was closed in 1963.

Under Transport 21, delivery of a rail link to Navan is not scheduled until 2015, the last project in the plan despite an Iarnród Éireann report indicating a 5 year restoration period.

The joint promoters of the Navan scheme as announced under Transport 21 in November 2005 are Fingal County Council, Meath County Council, Iarnród Éireann and the Department of Transport.

Historical interest

1897 timetable
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