East Cork railway to reopen in 2009

THE tannoy operator will apologise that due to a number of ‘signalling failures’ the train arriving in Midleton railway station is a small bit late... two years in fact.

The latest in the saga of signalling errors concerning the reopening of the multi-million euro Cork-Midleton line came yesterday when Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, announced he had finally signed off on the Railway Order, which will allow work on the project to proceed.

That was the good news, but the sting in the tail came at the end of his official press release with the line that ‘the first commuter trains are expected to enter into service in 2009.’