COMMUTERS are voting with their feet and boycotting pay parking charges introduced at stations along the Cork-Midleton line.

THE sun shone as the crowd gathered and at 12.46pm the mass assembly heaved with shouts of glee and clapping as the first scheduled train in 46 years tooted its way into Midleton railway station last Thursday.

THE Government’s timetable for reopening the Cork-Midleton railway line was called into question again last night when a TD claimed the start-up date would be later than previously announced.

ANN MALLORY (Irish Examiner letters, February 10) is correct about the unattractive, creeping urbanisation and industrialisation occurring between Cork city and Midleton.

THE first railway line to be opened for more than 100 years was announced yesterday by Minister for Transport Séamus Brennan.