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Kanturk railway remains

corktina · 2014-05-29 10:09:10

Hard to photo, but there used to be a three-pier bridge crossing the road and river. The embankment forms the boundary of the town park and all three piers can still be seen, together with a bridge adjacent over the Mill Culvert that forms another boundary of the park and finally how it once was

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29-05-2014 11:09am

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Hard to photo, but there used to be a three-pier bridge crossing the road and river. The embankment forms the boundary of the town park and all three piers can still be seen, together with a bridge adjacent over the Mill Culvert that forms another boundary of the park

and finally how it once was

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#2 29-05-2014 11:22am
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When's the reopening ceremony?

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#3 29-05-2014 11:25am
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I'm working on it, but there's just me doing everything in the K&N Railway Society

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#4 29-05-2014 1:37pm
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Judgement Day wrote: »

When's the reopening ceremony?

when we get 6111 up and running (that will be never)

ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.

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#5 29-05-2014 1:48pm
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If this works, the burnt out station can be seen alongside the half-demolished bakery with the Staionmasters house towards the bottom of the frame

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#6 30-05-2014 12:33am
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corktina wrote: »

I'm working on it, but there's just me doing everything in the K&N Railway Society

Nature reclaims everything.

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#7 30-05-2014 7:54am
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yep there was even tress growing out of the top of the middle pier which was "restored" a couple of years back

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