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Anorak railway question

  • 18-04-2011 9:36am
    #1
    corktina
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    will probably be JD who answrs this...


    along the old Kanturk and Newmarket Railway boundary behind my house is what I take to be the original fence. This is made up of cast metal posts with a kind of crown finial on top with very stout galvanised wire linking them.They are about 6 feet apart.

    Am I correct in thinking this would be the original fence from when the line was built?


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  • #2
    Victor
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    corktina wrote: »
    cast metal posts
    Does this look like a re-used piece of rail?

    Pics?


  • #3
    corktina
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    i'll try to get close enough for a photo...its a bit boggy!

    The posts are custom made with a cast crown on the top,are not ruty so they a rent stell (some kind of alloy?


  • #4
    corktina
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    wkmd6f.jpg
    2daymtd.jpg
    wtzuwj.jpg
    2i9oyzn.jpg

    not great photos but you get the idea...they seem to be at the outer edge of the hedgrow...the other hedge the other side of the line has been removed.


  • #5
    Judgement Day
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    They are original fenceposts alright. We recovered a section of them from the New Ross branch during road widening and they are now in use adjacent to the platform at Dromod (C&L). See fence in background in this pic.

    58a36b321bd4a7a0c9f9d124bf27d9a0796d7010.pjpg


  • #6
    corktina
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    i had faith in you...now the dilema...shall i liberate a few or leave them be? would look great in my gARDEN!


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  • #7
    Judgement Day
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    When in doubt liberate - but they are buried quite deep. You may find the bottoms a bit rotten but they can be cut off and the posts reset in concrete at a uniform level. :D


  • #8
    corktina
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    several are leaning so i'll give eme wiggle....


  • #9
    Victor
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    I'm modestly surprised that they went with metal fencing. I imagined that the hedges were there from day 1, although I suppose thats ill-though out.

    Along the Macroom line, near my parents' place, up to about 20 years ago there was fencing based on some rather dodgy loooking rail. Roughly here: http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,566607,569399,7,9 Its now a dual carriageway.
    Judgement Day wrote: »
    When in doubt liberate
    Can I encourage only legal 'liberating' from one's own side of the boundary? :)


  • #10
    corktina
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    if you could see the thickness of the wire you wont be surprised to know they are staying put!I will be kee[ing an eye out for the farmer "improving" the hedgerow Oddyl there is one concrete post next to the wire fence but not part of it.... !


  • #11
    corktina
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    the other side of the wire...

    towards Kanturk Station

    2mq984j.jpg

    towards Newmarket

    ehbw2o.jpg
    jk7x9e.jpg

    (left hand or southern hedge removed


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  • #12
    -Corkie-
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    You must have got fed up washing your tarmac lad....:D:D


  • #13
    corktina
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    -Corkie- wrote: »
    You must have got fed up washing your tarmac lad....:D:D

    seeing as you are so observant, you'll have noticed the tarmac needed a wash due to the removal of the railway sleepers formerly bordering it....now re-installed just off-camera in the second picture....along with G601:D


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