Kingscourt Line Co Cavan

lynchiered

Im looking to get permission from Irish Railway to do a photo survey on this line before it is lifted or made into a walkway. Does anybody have a contact e-mail in irish rail? I have been mailing info@irishrail.ie for weeks now and havent got a reply?

Regards

Paul

Hilly Bill

lynchiered wrote: »

Im looking to get permission from Irish Railway to do a photo survey on this line before it is lifted or made into a walkway. Does anybody have a contact e-mail in irish rail? I have been mailing info@irishrail.ie for weeks now and havent got a reply?

Regards

Paul

No reply? Not good enough. Post it on their twitter or facebook pages and see what the response is. If they tell you to mail them at Info@irishrail then tell them thats already been done. You might get a quicker response.

end of the road

just walk it and take the photos, apart from the ghostly men in long black robes and the midnight ghost train you'l be okay

Jamie2k9

Try online@irishrai.ie they should pass it on but if it was me I would just walk the line and take the photo's. IE will do or say nothing.

Judgement Day

Another old rule of thumb when dealing with CIE - as told to me by one of their managers - is if you keeping inquiring for permission to do something it will go higher and higher up the command chain until somebody says no! Just take the pics of the hedges and be done with it.

Sligo Quay

I don't think anybody bothers with permission and probably not needed, to take photos of an abandon railway line, plenty do, heres a good photo survey done here http://www.flickr.com/photos/be216cd1/sets/72157633759839850/ and here http://www.flickr.com/photos/be216cd1/sets/72157633842163396/ very good photo survey done here of the New Ross branch http://www.flickr.com/photos/be216cd1/sets/72157633054727416/ you can really take your pick of abandon lines on this site http://www.eiretrains.com/ it seems to be a popular pastime, I think CIE would be more concern tresspassing on open lines for obvious reasons, they don't care about the closed lines, no longer on their radar.
I wouldnd waste time asking for permission, just go and do it.

C4Kid

Just a word of warning op I'd be more wary of the locals then cie in rural areas. My car got reported in mogeely when I was doing an extensive survey on the station. I got a fare few weird looks from people too.

They thought I was robbing 30 ft sections of rail with my vw Golf. :-)

gobnaitolunacy

C4Kid wrote: »

Just a word of warning op I'd be more wary of the locals then cie in rural areas. My car got reported in mogeely when I was doing an extensive survey on the station. I got a fare few weird looks from people too.

They thought I was robbing 30 ft sections of rail with my vw Golf. :-)

Banjo playing country there, bet the people looked weird as well.:D

gobnaitolunacy

What I find amusing looking for disused/closed lines is, 'ah shure there's nawthing running there, tis all took up' and the standard 'twas a pity they closed it'.....and they probably never travelled on it since they bought that new Ford Anglia back in nineteen-fifty-squat.

Cyberbeagle

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

What I find amusing looking for disused/closed lines is, 'ah shure there's nawthing running there, tis all took up' and the standard 'twas a pity they closed it'.....and they probably never travelled on it since they bought that new Ford Anglia back in nineteen-fifty-squat.

Or the "ah it was a shame it was closed" response followed by "There's no way I'm letting anyone rebuild it on moi land"...

munchkin_utd

C4Kid wrote: »

Just a word of warning op I'd be more wary of the locals then cie in rural areas. My car got reported in mogeely when I was doing an extensive survey on the station. I got a fare few weird looks from people too.

They thought I was robbing 30 ft sections of rail with my vw Golf. :-)

nope, it was most likely a community alert scheme in place to monitor scumbags travelling up from Dublin to rob houses.

My parents (along with anyone else on the scheme) get a text whenever theres a suspicious vehicle lurking about the place.

Sligo Quay

munchkin_utd wrote: »

nope, it was most likely a community alert scheme in place to monitor scumbags travelling up from Dublin to rob houses.

I better be careful what I say here, and not be going off thread, but I just can't let that comment pass.
In the North West, Sligo and Mayo, we never had problems from scumbags (as you refer them) from Dublin. It wasn't Dublin scumbags that attacked the brave Padraig Nally, no no, it was mobile criminals, they make Dublin jackeens look like angels, these are the people we fear in rural Ireland, read about it here and don't have nightmares http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/court-hears-how-mcnally-hit-traveller-like-a-badger-287921.html

Grandeeod

Sligo Quay wrote: »

I better be careful what I say here, and not be going off thread, but I just can't let that comment pass.
In the North West, Sligo and Mayo, we never had problems from scumbags (as you refer them) from Dublin. It wasn't Dublin scumbags that attacked the brave Padraig Nally, no no, it was mobile criminals, they make Dublin jackeens look like angels, these are the people we fear in rural Ireland, read about it here and don't have nightmares http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/court-hears-how-mcnally-hit-traveller-like-a-badger-287921.html

Relax. Its called ignorance.

munchkin_utd

Lads, ye can bin your prejudice against travelers and just read this which is a recent article on the community alert issues in south east Cavan (not north west Connacht)
http://www.anglocelt.ie/news/breakingnews/articles/2013/05/06/4015667-there-is-a-problem-people-are-afraid--focus-on-bailieboroughs-drug-explosion

There's also mention of the alert schemes in the area.

John_Rambo

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Lads, ye can bin your prejudice against travelers and just read this which is a recent article on the community alert issues in south east Cavan (not north west Connacht)
http://www.anglocelt.ie/news/breakingnews/articles/2013/05/06/4015667-there-is-a-problem-people-are-afraid--focus-on-bailieboroughs-drug-explosion

There's also mention of the alert schemes in the area.

So it's home bred local scum then. I guess you can take your own advice and bin your Dublin prejudice?