Cork Kent station closed - partial roof collapse

danotroy · 18-12-2013 4:28pm #1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=559855917417113

Looks like kent station platform one and two has just collapsed!

Victor · 18-12-2013 4:31pm

Iarnród Éireann ‏@IrishRail 8m

Kent Station Cork: serious damage to roof canopy platforms 1 & 2 (Cobh/Midleton train platforms). Station closed, more info shortly

danotroy · 18-12-2013 4:32pm

Victor wrote: »

I'd like supporting evidence of this or this thread is being closed.

Moderator

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/roof-at-cork-railway-station-collapses-in-storm-1.1631691

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/part-of-roof-collapses-at-cork-train-station-617570.html

Cian92 · 18-12-2013 4:32pm

It's all over 96fm, trains are terminating in Mallow and people are being bussed to Cork.

Skid X · 18-12-2013 4:33pm

Same story here

https://twitter.com/irishexaminer/status/413330720371654656

danotroy · 18-12-2013 4:33pm

facebook link is from a friends page he just got off train and it collapsed! he took a video put it seems its not working for you sorry ill try and sort it

Cian92 · 18-12-2013 4:35pm

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=558399080908772&set=a.506012939480720.1073741825.350335405048475&type=1

danotroy · 18-12-2013 4:38pm

Looks shocking on the video, I initially thought it was a generic facebook video as it kept cropping up on my feed. Ive asked him to open it up to the public! collapsed on the train as passengers were exiting according to him.

mike65 · 18-12-2013 4:42pm

This is the wind I take it? How old is the Kent Station structure, always looked very venerable.

Victor · 18-12-2013 4:48pm

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4974&p=116&n=237

Cork Station Closed Until Further Notice
18 December 2013

Cork Station is currently closed due to serious damage to the roof on Platform 1 & 2.

Cork - Heuston Services will operate to and from Mallow only until further notice.

Cork - Cobh and Cork - Midleton services are suspended until further notice.

Updates will be posted on the website and on Twitter.

mike65 wrote: »

This is the wind I take it? How old is the Kent Station structure, always looked very venerable.

1893. It was built to connect the Dublin and east Cork lines. The previous terminal station is south of the current station.

Conradd · 18-12-2013 4:50pm

Definetely 1 person injured

Conradd · 18-12-2013 4:53pm

Scary stuff

Notorious93 · 18-12-2013 4:56pm

3 people confirmed injured so far but not serious apparently

danotroy · 18-12-2013 4:56pm

Source Jimmy Lalor on Cobh edition open Discussion page

pwurple · 18-12-2013 4:59pm

Yikes. It was high winds and heavy rain this morning alright down here.

Of all the times of year though... all those people who would be travelling home on those trains.

Conradd · 18-12-2013 5:02pm

View from main entrance

Knob Longman · 18-12-2013 5:16pm

Of course we won't get any accountability over it, But only a pack of total eejits would let the roof get into such a vulnerable state.

Victor · 18-12-2013 5:25pm

Platform 1-2 is closest to the car park.

http://binged.it/1cbsNdd

Platform 1-2 before the collapse

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cork_trains/8377175804/in/faves-maros13o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brusse/4632722718/in/faves-maros13o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/5901420163/in/faves-maros13o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/7169466443/in/faves-maros13o/

Platform 3, with a partial view of Platform 1-2 before the collapse

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75088377@N06/7165488545/in/faves-maros13o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/5739861750/

Effects · 18-12-2013 5:29pm

Sleephead wrote: »

Thats what happens when Dublin gets all the infrastructure money.

Everyone else gets a lick of paint and a kick up the hole

Quit hating on Dublin. There's a reason you think we get all the money.

Victor · 18-12-2013 5:38pm

Sleephead wrote: »

Thats what happens when Dublin gets all the infrastructure money.

Everyone else gets a lick of paint and a kick up the hole

Constructive posts only please.

Moderator

Cork station has had the concourse re-done, new staff facilities, work to the maintenance buildings and a new entrance facing the River Lee has received planning permission. New stations were opened in the last few years at Carrigtwohill and Midleton and the other stations have received upgrades. Work at Heuston Station benefits passengers travelling between Cork and Dublin.

Sleephead · 18-12-2013 5:42pm

Victor wrote: »

Constructive posts only please.

Moderator

Cork station has had the concourse re-done, new staff facilities, work to the maintenance buildings and a new entrance facing the River Lee has received planning permission. New stations were opened in the last few years at Carrigtwohill and Midleton and the other stations have received upgrades. Work at Heuston Station benefits passengers travelling between Cork and Dublin.

Its an opinion pertinent to the dilapidated state of the station no?

coylemj · 18-12-2013 5:47pm

Pascal Sheehy on RTE R1 Drivetime now talking about it, young woman in her 20s injured. Initial reports claimed people were trapped under the roof but he says that was not the case.

Area affected is the eastern side of the station, platforms 1 & 2. Train had just left prior to the canopy being blown off, otherwise things could have been worse. Gusts were particularly high at the time (about 3 p.m.) - private houses on the road outside had roof tiles blown off as well as the damage to the railway station.

stop · 18-12-2013 6:40pm

Barry K on newstalk now.

'a twister' according to Bobby Kerr hit it.

Barry Kenny:
50mph speed restrictions for the night between Ballinasloe and Galway, Dromod and Sligo, Castlerea and Westport due to risk of downed trees.

Hungerford · 18-12-2013 6:43pm

Victor wrote: »

Cork station has had the concourse re-done, new staff facilities, work to the maintenance buildings and a new entrance facing the River Lee has received planning permission.

I'm quite unnerved by this. It is possibly another maintenance failure at Irish Rail and serious questions need to be asked.

Slunk · 18-12-2013 6:49pm

Why is it automatically a maintenance issue. Usual crap blaming IR for any problems that occur. There were very high winds which also caused damage to nearby houses. These things happen. Stop looking to blame someone and be thankful nobody was seriously injured.

Hungerford · 18-12-2013 6:51pm

Slunk wrote: »

These things happen. Stop looking to blame someone and be thankful nobody was seriously injured.

Irish Rail have had a tendency to defer maintenance on stations - the roof at Pearse Station in Dublin has needed attention for more than a decade but still hasn't received it.

stop · 18-12-2013 7:05pm

Who will investigate this? RAIU, HSA, RSC, Gardai?

fastrac · 18-12-2013 7:09pm

120 yrs old.

Red Nissan · 18-12-2013 7:10pm

stop wrote: »

Barry K on newstalk now. 'a twister' according to Bobby Kerr hit it.

It was a convection downdraft, EICK recorded a 111km/h wind gust at the same time. This event was caused by the fierce rainfall lowering the air pressure and allowing a violent convection current to blow in.

This type of event was also the cause of the damage during the Night of the Big Wind in 1839 and that was called a hurricane, it wasn't but these wind gusts can be every bit as dangerous and damaging.

davidlacey · 18-12-2013 7:57pm

It shows how well these structures were built to last that length of time, all these stations have got face lifts but the main issues have not been sorted(the expensive jobs) I.e pearse and the structures of kent stations which have been mentioned earlier. But thank god no one was hurt, another wake up call for IE!

TheBandicoot · 18-12-2013 7:59pm

I wonder if the cost of rectifying this in terms of new roof, removal of old one, insurance/other claims/service disruption/overtime etc. etc. will in one swoop wipe out all the saving made by IE this year from fleet changes.

Cork Kent station closed - partial roof collapse

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