page_title: Midland Railway Action Group
section_title: Rail Track Costings (at 2004 prices)
hierarchical_section_title: Midland Railway Action Group / Rail Track Costings (at 2004 prices)
caption_attribution_description: English: 800 iii Infrastructure comparison
context_page_description: Midland Railway Action Group was established to improve the internal infrastructure of the Irish Midlands, in particular, Mullingar, Tullamore, and Athlone, the Midland Railway Action Group is a pressure group striving to have the Athlone to Mullingar rail line re-opened, in order to serve the Midland Gateway towns of Athlone, Tullamore, and Mullingar with a transport corridor that answers the future and current requirements while remaining Kyoto friendly. More generally, other towns they claim would positively affected by the desired re-opening of the Athlone -Mullingar rail link are Cavan, Clones, Longford, and Monaghan from the MRAG.
  Willie Allen is currently the M.R.A.G. spokesperson.
context_section_description: Priced per kilometre 
  Normal one track (no via-ducts nor bridges) = 5 to 10 M€
  Bridges and Viaducts  priced per kilometre = 30 to 50 M€  (one of two tracks is 0.6 of total cost)
  Tunnels for 21st century needs at 270 km/h mono-tube or one track per tube 100m square 30M€ to 50M€
  Tunnels that exceed 500m to 1 km, special security furnishings,  45M€ to 75M€ (averaged to 1 km for 3/4/7/10 km tunnel)
  TER Typical 21st century costings for regional rail transport are also available here.
caption: Infrastructure, Capacity / Soil-occupation,
   Rail or Motorway comparisson
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