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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
The costs are considerably more
The train needs a guard, all the signalmen and gate keepers need to be paid for an hour more and someone once a week has to lug the signaling staffs from Ballybrophy to Roscrea. Someone extra in Ballybrophy to work the branch release
If you took 600 and multiplied by the number of trains a day on the Nenagh line you only get 1.4 or so million, but the line is losing over 2 million pa
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Why would somebody extra be required to work the branch release ? Surely this could be done by either the guard (not required after Ballybrophy) or the depotman at Ballybrophy.
The point about the ETS staff is interesting - traditionally these instruments would have been re-balanced by the "PO linesman". Not sure who would carry out this task nowadays, could this be an Eircom function ?