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More surreal news from the Twilight Zone!

  • 04-11-2009 12:23pm
    #1
    Judgement Day
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    You may like to click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y before proceeding to read the attached article hot from today's Enniscorthy Guardian.



    Dick Fearn must have finally cracked with the strain of recent months or maybe the Irish Traction Group are going to run the line with an A-class and some 'steam' heated Cravens. I love steam......:pac::pac::pac:


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  • #2
    DWCommuter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭DWCommuter


    How very very very sad.


  • #3
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,494 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I wonder how often those 1500 rail users use the line.


  • #4
    Our man in Havana
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    The Barrow bridge is in an awful state. IE have been looking for an excuse to close the line for years.


  • #5
    Judgement Day
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    I think you are incorrect here. I believe the Barrow bridge is in quite good nick and has had work done on it in recent times - if I can find the relevant info I will post here. You must remember that CIE have been looking for an excuse to close the entire rail network for years not just the Barrow bridge!


  • #6
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    Given the number of landslips and other closures on the Dublin-Wexford, I think it would be insane to close the only other route out. We found out in Malahide what happens when the alternate route (in this case Drogheda-Navan-Clonsilla) being unavailable means equipment is trapped.


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  • #7
    DWCommuter
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    Given the number of landslips and other closures on the Dublin-Wexford, I think it would be insane to close the only other route out. We found out in Malahide what happens when the alternate route (in this case Drogheda-Navan-Clonsilla) being unavailable means equipment is trapped.

    That is very true. But CIE never factor in such eventualities to closures as they know that whether a service runs or not, they still get paid. Like many semi-states, they have a "suckling" mentality.


  • #8
    Our man in Havana
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    Is the Barrow Bridge still restricted to 5 mph?


  • #9
    Hungerford
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    DWCommuter wrote: »
    That is very true. But CIE never factor in such eventualities to closures as they know that whether a service runs or not, they still get paid. Like many semi-states, they have a "suckling" mentality.

    Of course, the rather sad fact is that the route is actually quicker than driving between the two points but through a combination of innovative marketing, timetabling and work practices, IE have managed to reduce rail travel on the line to barely nothing.


  • #10
    DWCommuter
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    Hungerford wrote: »
    Of course, the rather sad fact is that the route is actually quicker than driving between the two points but through a combination of innovative marketing, timetabling and work practices, IE have managed to reduce rail travel on the line to barely nothing.

    We agree on that, absolutely.


  • #11
    DWCommuter
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    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Is the Barrow Bridge still restricted to 5 mph?

    Judging by this photo it is.

    looking-along-the-line-at-barrow-bridge-02_resize.jpg


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  • #12
    Judgement Day
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    DWCommuter - are you a closet dribbler? Is that your own pic taken from near Kilmokea halt? :D


  • #13
    DWCommuter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭DWCommuter


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    DWCommuter - are you a closet dribbler? Is that your own pic taken from near Kilmokea halt? :D


    Sorry to disappoint JD! But I came across it doing some work related research on Great Island power station and remembered the question that was asked.

    Anyway...5mph....ya gotta worry!


  • #14
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    It's the high point of the journey between Rosslare and Waterford and the view is magnificient. In any event I would be more alarmed if the speed limit was any higher. Still suspect your a trainspotter at heart and I recall meeting you on a railtour some years ago!


  • #15
    DWCommuter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭DWCommuter


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Still suspect your a trainspotter at heart and I recall meeting you on a railtour some years ago!

    :D No, definetely not a trainspotter. Interested in railways yes,(as you know) but not the escapades of trainspotters. As for the railtour, it was my second one (you didn't buy me a drink) and all in the interests of supporting a good friend that labours in a shed in Carrick-on-suir. Havent been on one since, but Im open to offers as I find them to be an extremely effective way of getting inside the head of a trainspotter. Interestingly they seem to be full of trainspotters from across the pond, who found a reversal and a loco "run around" at Limerick junct, worth photographing, while I found it embarassing and hopelessly out of date. Thats the difference JD!;)


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