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My cousin is an engineer working for Iarnród Éireann at Heuston Station, they’ve just about completed the refurbishment of Heuston, relaying track etc, and are about to move down to Connolly …. anyway i got talking to him about the tunnel …

he says that apart from freight, it is used by passenger trains on private hire by big business etc. however, this is rare enough …

then I asked him why the bloody hell its not used to transport passengers from heuston to connolly …

According to him, capacity at Connolly is the problem…

It just cant take the increased passenger numbers, not enough platforms etc.

He is just about to be shifted down to Connolly with a large group of engineers to start work on remodelling the station, increasing the number of platforms and relaying track, he says that when the work is complete, a shuttle service between the two stations, via the tunnel, will commence, by 2005 approx …. has anyone else heard anything like this ?