Anyone who throws freight into the argument is really grasping at straws. Rosslare is a RO-RO port no chance of any transfer of freight. Waterford has it tied up in the container business. Rosslare line is limited to 8'6" containers all the way to Dublin, 9'6" is the big thing at the moment which is permitted elsewhere on the network where container trains run. Unless someone starts a mine in Wexford there is no hope of freight, even if there was it only pays its marginal costs so it really doesn't make a contribution to the bottom line.
Wexford doesn't need a new station, it need trains to serve the station
For the record the average number of foot passengers per ferry service at Rosslare is 6, compared to the 1000+ per morning in the dark days in 1950's, hardly worth chasing in any respect
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