Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Disused infrastrure

Options
  • 13-03-2014 11:25pm
    #1
    Trick of the Tail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭


    I had a rare train trip today; interesting to spot some of the now disused infrastructure.

    Where does the spur just south of Athy, that swings off to the right as you're travelling south go?

    Also, Heuston, platform 10. What's that for? How do you get to it and is it ever used?


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Trick of the Tail wrote: »
    I had a rare train trip today; interesting to spot some of the now disused infrastructure.

    Where does the spur just south of Athy, that swings off to the right as you're travelling south go?

    Also, Heuston, platform 10. What's that for? How do you get to it and is it ever used?

    The spur at Athy is the remnants of the line that served the Wolfhill Colliery and latterly the Tegral factory.

    Platform 10 is never used these days. It can be accessed by heading in past the car park and alongside the old Guinness sidings. I think it's generally locked up these days so probably not worth a trip up.


  • Options
    #3
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ClovenHoof


    That Athy Branch was mad busy with goods trains when I was a kid. When was the last movement?


  • Options
    #4
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Platform 10 was in use during the upgrading of Heuston yard. See if you can spot platform 10 and a half :).


  • Options
    #5
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭Eiretrains


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    That Athy Branch was mad busy with goods trains when I was a kid. When was the last movement?
    It last saw cement traffic in 2005, the exact date unknown.


  • Options
    #6
    metrovick001
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭metrovick001


    Cement to Athy finished this week 2005.
    I got a shot of 189 & 187 by chance on the last week of service on 18-March-2005.

    http://www.metrovick.com/Pages/GMs/gm_pages/189_01.html
    Eiretrains wrote: »
    It last saw cement traffic in 2005, the exact date unknown.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Salmon Leap
    Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Salmon Leap


    Sorry for going slightly off-topic. In pre-DART days there was s small overgrown spur just south of Lansdowne Rd on the northbound line. Anyone know what it was used for?


  • Options
    #8
    flyingsnail
    Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    Salmon Leap wrote: »
    Sorry for going slightly off-topic. In pre-DART days there was s small overgrown spur just south of Lansdowne Rd on the northbound line. Anyone know what it was used for?

    Sounds like the remains of the branch line that ran into the RDS


  • Options
    #9
    Eiretrains
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭Eiretrains


    flyingsnail wrote: »
    Sounds like the remains of the branch line that ran into the RDS

    That's right, there's an interesting thread about it here :)
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056439701


Advertisement