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Ballyvoile bridge

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    #62
    William Powell
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    cianclarke wrote: »
    Off the railway bridge, yeah..

    Nah, no bungee jumping afaik but some abseiling. Think even with that there was the usual "insurance" issues and thats why it stopped.


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    #63
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    William Powell wrote: »
    Nah, no bungee jumping afaik but some abseiling. Think even with that there was the usual "insurance" issues and thats why it stopped.
    Yes, there was bungee jumping until around 1999 I think.


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    #64
    William Powell
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Yes, there was bungee jumping until around 1999 I think.

    Our kitchen window over looked the bridge and only we only ever saw them abseiling but that would have been from around 2000.


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    #65
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    Well you probably have a much better handle on what's going on there so, I was only getting the news second hand from some friends who were supposed to have done it a least once a month on Sundays for a couple of years up to 1999.


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    #66
    William Powell
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Well you probably have a much better handle on what's going on there so, I was only getting the news second hand from some friends who were supposed to have done it a least once a month on Sundays for a couple of years up to 1999.

    I'd only go as far as saying I hadn't actually seen any bungee jumping from 2000 onwards, it was some extreme sports club that used the bridge as you say on Sundays so its certainly possible.

    You couldn't use the spot for bungee jumping now as there is no place to get a good rope anchor, the abseilers used the railway tracks but the tracks and sleepers were taken up a good few years back now.


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    #67
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    It's 20 years since I walked it, I didn't know the tracks had been taken up.


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    #68
    William Powell
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    It's 20 years since I walked it, I didn't know the tracks had been taken up.

    I hate going by memory without references as I know how wrong I can be sometime but I seem to remember they took the tracks up just before the footpath debacle between the farmers and the council. So I guess part of the preparations for the Dungarvan - Durrow - Kilmac footpath included removing the tracks - I bet someone made a killing on the scrap and resale of the sleepers.


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    #69
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    Oh yeah, I remember something about the sleepers now, they were trucked away about 8 years ago I think, I had forgotten that.

    That walk is really nice though, across the bridge down the line through the tunnel and on out to the shop...:D


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    #70
    STIG83
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    I went for a walk on the Kilmac Viaduct last night, all the track has been lifted for a good few years now, i think the only bit of track left is on the Red Bridge in Waterford City.


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    #71
    She Devil
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    Nothing to contribute guys, just want to say what an interesting thread! I can't wait to pick up the book now myself!


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    #72
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    Just something I found on another thread with some very good photos.


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    #73
    William Powell
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Just something I found on another thread with some very good photos.

    That 2nd to last photo of that set of the road bridge (the one the OP wanted to know about) is interesting as afaik its taken from the railway bridge which is in the last photo.


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