{"id":561712,"date":"2026-07-22T01:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561712\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:25:22","slug":"draft-report-on-tralee-blennerville-steam-train-due-by-end-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561712\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft report on Tralee-Blennerville steam train due by end of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A draft report on the feasibility for the reinstatement of the Tralee to Blennerville steam train is due by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s and early 2000s, a steam train served as a tourist attraction, running between Tralee and Blennerville from the old Tralee to Dingle line.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question from Sinn F\u00e9in councillor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/cllr-paul-daly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Daly<\/a>, Kerry County Council said an initial draft of a feasibility report it commissioned will be completed by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>That report is being done by consultants, who are doing a detailed condition survey and assessment of the existing rail assets, while they also visited the site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrycoco.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The council<\/a> said the consultants will examine options for repurposing the existing assets, and look at one or several potential future uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A draft report on the feasibility for the reinstatement of the Tralee to Blennerville steam train is due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-561712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561712","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=561712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}