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Portadown Yard / Sidings

  • 29-05-2015 7:10pm
    #1
    Victor
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    The Translink 2016 Network Statement refers to the following.
    3.8.2 Storage Sidings

    Storage sidings are available at the following locations (total lengths of sidings at each location*):
    Location No. of Roads Cumulative Length
    Portadown Yard 3 600m
    Portadown Sidings 2 400m

    Where are they? It doesn't seem to be a reference to platform 3 at the station (down track not yet mapped). http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/54.42511/-6.44638


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  • #2
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    I'm guessing these are the sidings north of the Bann bridge on the approach to the station. Looks like there's an old platform there too.

    There's also a few sidings south of the station too, they end just before the platform. I remember an 80 class was dumped there for a while after being withdrawn.


  • #3
    Losty Dublin
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    The current station has three platforms, one of which is a loop of the down mainline. Thosee sidings referred to by Karsini were one of several locations for Portadown station in the past. It don't think they have seen use in any a year years, PW trains for the region tend to be loaded in a short siding at Poynzpass.


  • #4
    GM228
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    Victor wrote: »
    The Translink 2016 Network Statement refers to the following.



    Where are they? It doesn't seem to be a reference to platform 3 at the station (down track not yet mapped). http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/54.42511/-6.44638

    Portadown yard refers to the sidings North of Portadown which are part of the original Portadown station and used rarely by PWD trains, the other two are south of the station which uaed to have the 80s stored in them and occasionally used for OTMs.

    GM228


  • #5
    Victor
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    I've added more track and the sites

    https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/54.42395/-6.44707
    https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/54.43035/-6.43587
    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    The current station has three platforms, one of which is a loop of the down mainline.
    On Dublin-Belfast, isn't the northbound track the "up" track?


  • #6
    GM228
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    Victor wrote: »
    I've added more track and the sites

    https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/54.42395/-6.44707
    https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/54.43035/-6.43587

    On Dublin-Belfast, isn't the northbound track the "up" track?

    Northbound (Dublin to Belfast) is down, Southbound is up.

    GM228


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  • #7
    Victor
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    As I understand things, most up tracks go to Dublin, but I thought Dublin-Belfast it was specifically different?


  • #8
    Losty Dublin
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    Victor wrote: »
    As I understand things, most up tracks go to Dublin, but I thought Dublin-Belfast it was specifically different?

    When the line was built by the Ulster Railway from Belfast it was the other way around, yeah. At the time when the lines were to be connected up and standard gauge was imposed it became that it was Down from Dublin.


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