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Oddities of Irish Infrastructure

Chris_533976 · 2009-12-12 12:31:19

They have loads of these threads on Sabre showing strange quirks of UK infrastructure so lets have one here. Post odd, interesting facts about Irish roads/rail/etc that only absolute nerds would care about at all. Heres one - On the old N6 between Galway and Ballinasloe, if you're travelling West to East, there is about…

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#122 27-04-2010 10:50am
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Colmgogan wrote: »

Here's one!

Spending 2-5 (Nobody really knows) Billion euro on a tunnel to join
Connolly and Heuston station when there is already a perfectly good existing tunnel doing exactly the same thing for free!!! Then IE's blatant avoiding of the question....
Mind Boggling...

You can read several critiques of this well-intentioned (but ultimately short-termist) proposal here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055663565

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#123 27-04-2010 9:48pm
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Enbee wrote: »

You can read several critiques of this well-intentioned (but ultimately short-termist) proposal here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055663565

They should open the Phoenix Park tunnel, but not as a replacement for the Interconnector. The main reason for that tunnel is to relieve congestion on the Loop Line Bridge.

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#124 15-05-2010 12:10pm
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Clonmel, Co. Tipp, these signs are facing each other and point to the same road:

Spot the 'deliberate' mistake?

Andy.

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#125 25-06-2010 6:03pm
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murphaph wrote: »

Abandoned motorways are almost unheard of in Ireland.

Here's one:

Guess where!

A.

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#126 25-06-2010 6:55pm
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Is this part of the Balbriggan by-pass? I can see a sign for the M1 business park in the background.

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#127 25-06-2010 7:32pm
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Yep, thats a good clue. Thats the bit referred to in the post I quoted; Runs from the R132 towards the present site of J5, on the eastern side of the M1.

Seems to have been taken over by the farmer to store/dump his old machinery! Looks a bit eerie though when you look along it.

A.

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#128 25-06-2010 7:32pm
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EDIT: Yeah what he said.

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#129 25-06-2010 8:54pm
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There is half of a railway bridge over the strawberry beds what happened to the rest of it

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#130 25-06-2010 8:57pm
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alinton wrote: »

Guess where!

A.

Same place as described in post #33 not to mention the post you were quoting was a link to a map of the road!!

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#131 25-06-2010 10:06pm
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Pot wrote:

There is half of a railway bridge over the strawberry beds what happened to the rest of it

Not railway.

Was used to carry power cables from a hydro station and for staff access to Farmleigh.

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#132 25-06-2010 10:27pm
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MYOB wrote: »

Not railway.

Was used to carry power cables from a hydro station and for staff access to Farmleigh.

Farmliegh is miles away and where was the hydro station

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#133 25-06-2010 10:43pm
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Pot wrote:

Farmliegh is miles away and where was the hydro station

Not a rail bridge - details here: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:49VREt_CtmMJ:www.fingalcoco.ie/YourLocalCouncil/AboutFingal/OtherServices/Architects/PublicBuildings/FileDownload,22093,en.pdf+strawberry+beds+bridge&hl=en&gl=ie&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAuzXeUtDFFfHksMgyeOqblfQ_nOVc-oSVSU-HySbjYTQFpPf_jFgCJr8gJuB9ZVRFJS-H03sDljLr1ugoalrwi6VEsy-EsjEgZ3Y4VGc2755ZP6vsxc6wGF702M72CeQPZirt&sig=AHIEtbS1dhnGdg3B1Lury4hXwT_dYWx--g

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#134 26-06-2010 7:16pm
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alinton wrote: »

Clonmel, Co. Tipp, these signs are facing each other and point to the same road:

Spot the 'deliberate' mistake?

Andy.

Did no-one get this?

Powerstown ROAD Park / Powerstown PARK Road !

A.

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#135 26-06-2010 8:48pm
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alinton wrote: »

Did no-one get this?

Powerstown ROAD Park / Powerstown PARK Road !

A.

TWO deliberate mistakes surely....an extra H (or one missing...)

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#136 26-06-2010 9:28pm
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Ha oh yea! Didn't notice that!

A.

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#137 26-06-2010 10:11pm
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alinton wrote: »

Ha oh yea! Didn't notice that!

A.

s'ok I didn't notice the parkroadpark bit at first...

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#138 27-06-2010 11:42am
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Pot wrote:

Farmliegh is miles away and where was the hydro station

On the Liffey.

And while Farmleigh is miles away, people used to walk very long distances to work in those days, and it was a shorter way across the river than going to Chapeliziod.

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#139 27-06-2010 12:03pm
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was it nothing to do with Guinness castle near by

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#140 27-06-2010 12:18pm
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MYOB wrote: »

On the Liffey.

And while Farmleigh is miles away, people used to walk very long distances to work in those days, and it was a shorter way across the river than going to Chapeliziod.

As the crow flies, Farmleigh Bridge is just 0.5km from Farmleigh House.

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#141 27-06-2010 12:30pm
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(As richardjjd has just posted) Farmleigh is not miles away.

Footpaths from Palmersto(w)n Mills over this bridge to Farmleigh can be seen in historic 25 inch map - tick the bottom right box:

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,709000,735971,6

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#142 27-06-2010 12:57pm
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Pot wrote:

was it nothing to do with Guinness castle near by

The 'Guinness castle near by' IS Farmleigh.

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#143 27-06-2010 1:10pm
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No there is a tiny castle opposite Mount Sackville was owned by a Guinness up for sale a couple of years ago

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#144 27-06-2010 1:30pm
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salonfire wrote: »

The N13 in Donegal...its the only National Primary route that has to stop/give way to a Regional road.

Whereabouts is that?

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#145 27-06-2010 2:37pm
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McGaggs wrote: »

Whereabouts is that?

Couple of KM north of Stranorlar, the regional road to Raphoe takes priority at a T junction.

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#146 27-06-2010 6:05pm
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MYOB wrote: »

Couple of KM north of Stranorlar, the regional road to Raphoe takes priority at a T junction.

Would this regional road be the R236?

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#147 27-06-2010 6:24pm
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Yes. Wasn't bothered to check a map originally.

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#148 27-06-2010 7:44pm
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salonfire wrote: »

The N13 in Donegal...its the only National Primary route that has to stop/give way to a Regional road.

The old N8 has now become the N77 between Durrow and Portlaoise, and the R639 between Durrow and Cork. In Durrow, to stay on the N77 southbound one has to leave the mainline or else it becomes the R639 at the square. Northbound on the N77 you have to stop at the square, join the R639 which becomes the N77 once more a few metres along the road!

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#149 27-06-2010 8:27pm
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Plenty of national secondaries yield to R roads, think we actually went over this before - although before the N77 got extended!

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#150 27-06-2010 8:42pm
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MYOB wrote: »

Plenty of national secondaries yield to R roads, think we actually went over this before - although before the N77 got extended!

From N51 is a national secondary road, thus N77 is a national secondary.

N Road number < 50 is a national primary road. Currently the highest is N33
from Ardee, County Louth to M1 motorway.
Thus N13 is national primary road.

Yes there were posts about national secondary roads yielding to regional roads.

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#151 27-06-2010 8:48pm
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Danno wrote: »

The old N8 has now become the N77 between Durrow and Portlaoise, and the R639 between Durrow and Cork. In Durrow, to stay on the N77 southbound one has to leave the mainline or else it becomes the R639 at the square. Northbound on the N77 you have to stop at the square, join the R639 which becomes the N77 once more a few metres along the road!

There were plans for a N77 Durrow bypass:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055015844

No idea where they are now!

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