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Disused railway line? Rip it up and use it for bikes and walking

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    #32
    EDit
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭EDit


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    Be surprised so. Look at the OS 25" map here, you can follow the line all the way, and it was double track.

    Fair enough, the map does clearly show 2 tracks. I wonder if they have narrowed sections since then though as i went down to Golden Island earlier and made a point of looking east along the track from the crossing on the Ballymahon road and there is'nt a huge amount of space between the existing walls/fencing (i guess it depends on how much room you need around the tracks to maintain safety)


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    #33
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Looking East
    23604B8929CE4C5CB8372C6A1FC16B86-0000315944-0003349656-00800L-FBD775F3E5CC4E1BAB267D86E85B1466.jpg

    Looking West
    E126F6DAE1894E3FBA4CDBFF11EAB3D6-0000315944-0003349655-00800L-312F4EE3865A4A62BBB4D517D5004F52.jpg


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    #34
    flazio
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    IR will still have one eye on the future. If they ever plan to do a double track all the way from Galway to Dublin it will have to go via Mullingar as the rock cut in Tullamore won't be overcome too easily.


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    #35
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    whyulittle wrote: »
    Looking East
    23604B8929CE4C5CB8372C6A1FC16B86-0000315944-0003349656-00800L-FBD775F3E5CC4E1BAB267D86E85B1466.jpg

    Looking West
    E126F6DAE1894E3FBA4CDBFF11EAB3D6-0000315944-0003349655-00800L-312F4EE3865A4A62BBB4D517D5004F52.jpg

    Walked those sections of track 100s of times in my youth. ..kinda nostalgic looking at it now.

    Btw for interest sake. .In the photo looking East.....the 2nd track would have been on the left where the signal post now stands.


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    #36
    Awakening2014
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    What a lovely idea. Is there a looking North. I keep thinking there should be a railway going from Killare to malin head. Let's get it built by 2016. But planning permission granted by the female planner. Won't be an orange high vis to be seen on site XOXO


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    #37
    nice_guy80
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    Awakening2014 wrote: »
    What a lovely idea. Is there a looking North. I keep thinking there should be a railway going from Killare to malin head. Let's get it built by 2016. But planning permission granted by the female planner. Won't be an orange high vis to be seen on site XOXO

    there used to be


    http://www.downrail.co.uk/history/photos/Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg


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