Limerick to Fenit, along the North Kerry Line

And for some nostalgia, here is an old Super8 video of the North Kerry
line from ’86. It begins at Adare and follows the line to Tralee and on
to Fenit, it gets to Ballyroe about 5 1/2 mins. in, with views of Ballyroe, the Black Bridge [I think, anyone else have any ideas ?] and Tralee.
It then follows the Fenit line, with views out from Rock Street, across Kilfenora and the Tankard, and then Fenit station.

Good start to the year…

Happy New Year !

It is great that we can bring such good news in the first post of the year. Following negotiations CIE have given Kerry County Council the authority to act on their behalf in dealing with the redevelopment of the line and any issues that may arise.

As you may be aware clearance work on the line began in late 2010 but later stalled. These works were required to allow Kerry County Council’s engineers to survey the line in order to prepare plans for the line.

Since then Kerry County Council were awaiting permission from CIE to act on their behalf.

We have been informed that Kerry County Council staff are now progressing plans for the line.

Hopefully it will not be long before we see this amenity come to fruition !

Irish Rail Meeting

Very good meeting with Minister Jimmy Deenihan and members of Irish Rail’s Property Portfolio Dept yesterday at Leinster House. Another hurdle overcome and probably a few more to come, but the “Fat Lady” is beginning to warm her vocal chords!!!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video is worth 7 million euro !

Take a look at this video of the Newport-Mulranny section of the Great Western Greenway, we have the opportunity [and more importantly the funding] to have something similar on our door step !

This route has been hailed as major success by all, Fáilte Ireland estimate that the path would bring €7.2 million [ yes that is not a typo - read the report ] a year into the local economy .

To put the routes in context the Newport to Mulranny is only 3km longer than the Tralee to Fenit line.

This could be our [green]way out of recession !

WALK THE LINE 2

Another “WALK THE LINE” will take place on Sunday 11th December.Assemble at St.Brendan’s Church at 2.30pm and then continue on the rail-line to Mounthawk.Everybody welcome and all support would be greatly appreciated.

Traleee Fenit now on Facebook

Hey Folks, we have set up a support page for the project on facebook, so get posting and please share the page with your friends !

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tralee-to-Fenit-Greenway/229955993740942

Kerrys Eye Editorial

Interesting editorial from Colm Lacey in this weeks Kerrys Eye regarding conversion of closed railways.

Which would you prefer ?

Walk Sunday 23rd

It was great to see so many people of all ages come out last Sunday to ‘Walk The Line’, in spite to the atrocious weather and the three eight foot high barricades which mysteriously appeared and good to see the positivity and good spirits among the walkers !

The Friends of the Tralee Fenit Trailway wish to extend their thanks to everybody who braved the weathe on the day in particular to the politicians who attended, Cathal Foley, Sam Locke, Terry O’Brien and Mayor of Tralee Grace o’Donnel.

If anyone has any photos, it would be great to add them up here, so send them on or add a comment.

Walk the line !

You may have read from Colm’s comment that there will be a walk in support of the Tralee to Fenit pathway taking place Sunday next 23rd of October. It is great to see people come together from different communities along the line, Fenit, Spa and Tralee to promote this great project.

So please come out and show your support, assemble at St. Brendan’s church at 2.30pm, the walk will depart at 3pm to Mounthawk.

UPDATE

Poster and fliers for the walk are available for download, please print them out and spread the word.

Walk the line POSTER

Walk the line FLIERS