Talk:Dublin–Westport/Galway railway line

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This article combines several routes and creates a "railway line" that doen't really exist. Between Dublin and Portalington there is the Dublin–Cork line. After that the Portalington–Galway line runs to Galway via Athlone where the Athlone–Westport line branches off.

Making the lines to Galway and Westport begin at Dublin is incorrect and misleading for example when looking at this sentence: The Galway line was opened by the MGWR in 1851, which became the primary route to the west coast city from Dublin. If that is supposed to be a Dublin–Galway line this is wrong because the Great Southern and Western Railway built the line to Portalington and a line from Dublin to Galway was never constructed as such.

Generally speaking, one track is always part of only one railway line that can be used by several services. There might be services running between Dublin and Galway but so there are between several other destinations, that doesn't make this a railway line. Using the routes Iarnród Éireann published in their network statement there is a Portalington–Galway line and a Athlone–Westport line. This is also in accordance with the history of these lines. --PhiH (talk) 16:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]