{"id":216129,"date":"2025-12-29T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216129\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:17:09","slug":"irish-rails-omissions-of-waterford-to-wexford-railway-line-upgrade-sparks-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216129\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail\u2019s omissions of Waterford to Wexford railway line upgrade sparks backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The railway line.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RG Rail image.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The railway line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Waterford business owners and elected representatives have expressed disappointment that a recently updated national rail \u2018prioritisation strategy\u2019 appears to omit an upgrading of the Waterford to Wexford railway line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The railway line connecting Waterford to Wexford and Rosslare was closed in 2010, but has been maintained since then by Irish Rail. The recently published All-Island Strategic Rail Review has been criticised for appearing to show that the line no longer appears as a priority for government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The railway line. Waterford business owners and elected representatives have expressed disappointment that a recently updated national rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37898,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-216129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eoin-kelleher","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}