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Portlaoise station

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  • 09-03-2012 11:03pm
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    dowlingm
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    Hey folks

    I was looking at overhead of Portlaoise station and was hoping someone familiar might answer this: in addition to the through tracks there appears to be a bay platform facing southwest towards Cork on the south side of the station - is it signed into service for passenger trains?

    If so, would it be possible for a train coming up from the Cork direction to access the bay and head back in the same direction without too much fuss?


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    foggy_lad
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    Hey folks

    I was looking at overhead of Portlaoise station and was hoping someone familiar might answer this: in addition to the through tracks there appears to be a bay platform facing southwest towards Cork on the south side of the station - is it signed into service for passenger trains?

    If so, would it be possible for a train coming up from the Cork direction to access the bay and head back in the same direction without too much fuss?
    It looks like it is serving the maintenance depot only and the traincare centre but may not be open to passenger traffic?

    http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,646752,698574,7,3


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    starhillroad
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    I'll hazard a guess and say I think that is the former bay platform for Portlaoise (Maryborough)-Kilkenny-Waterford trains. That line closed in April 1963.


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    Judgement Day
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    starhillroad wrote: »
    I'll hazard a guess and say I think that is the former bay platform for Portlaoise (Maryborough)-Kilkenny-Waterford trains. That line closed in April 1963.

    Spot on. During the lifting of the Portlaoise/Kilkenny line in the 1960s a train of wagons carrying recovered track materials ran away and ended up smashing into the concrete buffer stop in the bay platform. Even in the 1980s it was still possible to see the cracked concrete buffer stop still in situ. Amazing the trivia that sticks in the mind. :D


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