Killarney

By Sean Moriarty
<h3>Elected members of Kerry County Council have led calls for Iarnr&oacute;d &Eacute;ireann&rsquo;s timetable to fall into line with airline schedule&nbsp;at Kerry Airport.</h3>
On Monday of this week Barry Kenny of Iarnr&oacute;d &Eacute;ireann gave a presentation to elected members of the council.
During the meeting he outlined some of the railway company&rsquo;s plans and ambitions from now until 2027.
These include an increase in frequency on the Tralee to Mallow line.
It is hoped to have one train an hour operating on the line at peak times and two-hourly off-peak.
In a perfect world, the rail station at Farranfore would be placed across the road from the airport and not a 1km walk away but such a move is not likely to happen.
Cllr Norma Moriarty, of the Kenmare Municipal District explained how she was on trip to Yorkshire a few years ago.
&ldquo;I flew from Kerry to Manchester and was able to get a connecting train to Yorkshire without ever leaving the airport building,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The people I was visiting were very surprised to hear me talk about this so much &ndash; it is normal to them.&rdquo;
Under the Strategy 2027 plan Killarney rail station will get repainted and new signs will be put in place during 2022.
Additional parking spaces will be created at Farranfore Railway station and this lead to calls for a similar expansion at Rathmore.
&ldquo;A lot of people from South Kerry use Rathmore railway station,&rdquo; said local councillor Niall Kelleher. &ldquo;They drive up from Kenmare and cut across by Glenflesk.&rdquo;
Mr Kenny said he would take the Rathmore comments back to the Iarnr&oacute;d &Eacute;ireann engineer in charge of parking strategy.

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