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Longest you've had to wait at a level crossing?

  • 07-04-2016 09:54AM
    #1
    PolaroidPizza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭


    At clonsilla 7pmish yesterday I watched 5 trains pass at the level crossing before the gates went up. Can anyone beat that?


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  • #2
    metrovick001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭metrovick001


    LOL - not in this country.
    Id say there were a few irate motorists blowing horns.


  • #3
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    How long would it take to actually build a bridge there?


  • #4
    metrovick001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭metrovick001


    They kinda have done. The bulk of the traffic through Clonsilla XNG was Lucan-Blanchardstown traffic and this is now routed over the relatively new bridge at Porterstown thus reducing traffic at Clonsilla.


  • #5
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,248 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Yet reading the submissions to the NTA on overall strategy there are plenty of NIMBYs who seem to think that the level crossings don't need to be removed - they don't want a large bridge built at Coolmine for example.


  • #6
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,908 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    PolaroidPizza wrote: »
    At clonsilla 7pmish yesterday I watched 5 trains pass at the level crossing before the gates went up. Can anyone beat that?

    5 trains in how many minutes, you could be waiting 10-15 minutes for two on Cork line!


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  • #7
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,262 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    5 trains in how many minutes, you could be waiting 10-15 minutes for two on Cork line!

    At clonsilla, with waits to join and leave the mainline you do get one short period of 5 in a short orig period (to Sligo, Maynooth and m3 and from Maynooth and m3) and could in theory get 6.

    No individual gaps are enough to raise the gates


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