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Slip Carriage GNR

Cardinal Richelieu · 2012-03-07 17:14:31

I was reading a local history society paper and the author talked about a Slip carriage attached to the 5.30 Dublin to Belfast GNR Express. Where there many used on the Irish rail system?

07-03-2012 06:14PM

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I was reading a local history society paper and the author talked about a Slip carriage attached to the 5.30 Dublin to Belfast GNR Express. Where there many used on the Irish rail system?

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The Great Southern & Western Railway operated them too and there used to be a slip coach on some of the Dublin/Cork Down trains for the Tullow branch - slipped at Sallins.

Previous thread here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055940272

Ther were several accidents with slip carriages: http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=1343

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach

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