Rail commuters ‘would hit 70,000’ if service expanded

OVER 70,000 commuters would use the Rosslare-Waterford rail line if the service ran three times a day instead of just once, campaigners have claimed.

With a decision on the future of the line due to be made tomorrow, protesters anxious to keep it open held a last-ditch meeting yesterday, pleading with the authorities not to end the service.

Politicians from across the south-east were among those who joined with the Save the Rail group at Plunkett Station in Waterford to voice their support for retaining the rail link between Rosslare and Waterford – which Iarnród Éireann wants to close.