Bord na Móna

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1NISZ0_Fk

metrovick001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKuNPNl5MP8

dowlingm

Did BnM ever ship peat over the general CIE/IE network?

metrovick001

Sod turf was transported during the second world war (before CIE) and briquettes were transported by IR in the 90s. I dont think any other peat products went by broad gauge.

metrovick001

Judgement Day

dowlingm wrote: »

Did BnM ever ship peat over the general CIE/IE network?

Peat Moss was shipped from the Kilberry plant and there was a siding on the down side - north of Athy on the Waterford line. During the late 1980s (?) briquettes were shipped from Bord na Mona (Littleton) Co.Tipperary via Thurles Station to a storage facility in Dublin docks. And, of course, there was a siding into the Bord na Mona Coolnamona Works on the stump of the Portlaoise/Kilkenny line.

It says all you need to know about our shambolic State sector that Bord na Mona has it's own transport fleet and no longer makes any use of CIE/IE.

sporty56

I'm curious about Metrovick's video of the ash train near Shannonbridge. I presume the ash is residue from burning peat to fire boilers in power station but where is train taking it for disposal ? Thanks Sporty56

Bogger77

They bury in the areas where the peat is exhausted. But given the contiguous network runs from East Galway (Clonfert) to Boora in Offaly, there's a lot a disposal sites.

Fred Swanson

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Bogger77

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Not really, if you mean block control and the like, definitely not.

It's been a while since i was in the unloaders at power stations, but I don't recall any signals there either.

sporty56

Bogger77,

Thanks for info - a few decades ago I was involved in trying to find a use for it in construction industry. We didn't find anything suitable and appears nobody else has, yet.

Sporty56

Bogger77

sporty56 wrote: »

Bogger77,

Thanks for info - a few decades ago I was involved in trying to find a use for it in construction industry. We didn't find anything suitable and appears nobody else has, yet.

Sporty56

There's massive pits, near Lumcloon power station, and I guess near Rhode and the other peat stations. If there's a use, i guess they can be dug back up

sporty56

Better to keep it in larger pits rather than numerous smaller ones making it easier to recover if needs be.

There are several instances globally of industrial wastes now being processed / used as technology has evolved to recover useful content. There's a set up in Chester area extracting unburnt carbon from bottom ash from coal burning power stations that must have been dumped in slag heaps about 60 years ago. Plenty of money in muck if you've the technology !!

metrovick001