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Mallow:cast iron

  • 19-06-2013 12:27pm
    #1
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭


    What are these bits? Colomns and girders. Could be water colomns and turntable?

    2uqf6n4.jpg351i8me.jpgavszeg.jpg


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  • #2
    GBOA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭GBOA


    I would say the posts almost certainly come from this

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/be216cd1/5589370920/


  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    yes you well be right, had forgotten that

    theres a wooden box full of cogs too


  • #4
    CaptainSkidmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭CaptainSkidmark


    did they take down the water tower when they built the new road there?


  • #5
    gobnaitolunacy
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    They must have done so. It's not where it used to be anymore!

    Did they scrap the tank then?


  • #6
    GBOA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭GBOA


    According to the photo caption, it was removed in June 2011.


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  • #7
    Rud
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    Is the crane still there??


  • #8
    corktina
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    pictures taken yesterday


  • #9
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Rud wrote: »
    Is the crane still there??

    Yes, it was moved, painted up, stuffed and mounted around the time the new car park was put in. Used be a lot closer to the site of the loco shed, it was part of the collection of the defunct GSRPS.


  • #10
    mp171
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭mp171


    Those columns are from the now demolished loco shed that made way for the car park. They didn't come from the water tower.


  • #11
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    mp171 wrote: »
    Those columns are from the now demolished loco shed that made way for the car park. They didn't come from the water tower.

    i don't think so. If you look at the pictures and compare them to the standing water tower, you can see that the bracing struts are still attached


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  • #12
    mp171
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭mp171


    Was there 5 years ago when the columns from the shed were wrapped up and there are no additional piles of cast iron and I was there last night (with work) and those are the ones from the shed. Apparently all the cast iron from the water tower was taken away by the contractors .


  • #13
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    i'm not convinced I'm afraid. I don't recall the loco shed being made out of cast iron colomns with cross bracing...happy to be corrected though if anyone has photos or similar


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