old railway track

amacca

Anyone know where you can buy a couple of sections old railway track?

The metal/track bits, not the wooden sleepers.

I'm looking to reinforce a wall. Couple of them here for donkeys years. Great stuff.

Lady Haywire

Dear Iarnród Éireann

I.O.U. A 100m section of railway line.

Sincerely,

amacca.

:pac:

Airplane Man

amacca wrote: »

Anyone know where you can buy a couple of sections old railway track?

The metal/track bits, not the wooden sleepers.

I'm looking to reinforce a wall. Couple of them here for donkeys years. Great stuff.

Sometimes they can be got at Hardware stores and places that sell gates. You could ask Irish Rail though.

D3V!L

mahanna wrote: »

Dear Iarnród Éireann

I.O.U. A 100m section of railway line.

Sincerely,

amacca.

:pac:

I found some lengths of it just lying in a field once all connected together and stuff !!

orm0nd

Barrett, (think his first name is Noel? ) between sixmilebridge & newmarketonfergus

Musketeer4

Airplane Man wrote: »

Sometimes they can be got at Hardware stores and places that sell gates. You could ask Irish Rail though.

Yeah well you'd have to ask someone at involved in permanent way maintenance at a local level. No point ringing up IE customer service like.

You could try getting on to someone in one of the crowds that do PW maintenance for them on contract. They might be able to hook you up.

Airplane Man

Musketeer4 wrote: »

Yeah well you'd have to ask someone at involved in permanent way maintenance at a local level. No point ringing up IE customer service like.

You could try getting on to someone in one of the crowds that do PW maintenance for them on contract. They might be able to hook you up.

I know that it would have to be somebody involved with track laying and stuff. They often do sell them where they sell gates. Sometimes gates are made from old railway sleepers.

patsy_mccabe

orm0nd wrote: »

Barrett, (think his first name is Noel? ) between sixmilebridge & newmarketonfergus

Ya Noel Barrett, 061-368597. Last time I talked to him about a month ago, he didn't have them. CIE sold them off as scrap to China a few years back when scrap was dear.

Sam Kade

amacca wrote: »

Anyone know where you can buy a couple of sections old railway track?

The metal/track bits, not the wooden sleepers.

I'm looking to reinforce a wall. Couple of them here for donkeys years. Great stuff.

Whereabouts are you? Unless you are willing to travel the length of the country to buy them.

annubis

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Ya Noel Barrett, 061-368597. Last time I talked to him about a month ago, he didn't have them. CIE sold them off as scrap to China a few years back when scrap was dear.

thinks kellys out in Clondegad used to have them as well

Cow Porter

local coop stocks them here but think they are coming from uk. there us some steel in them, a shed would last a good few generations with them as stanchions, don't use them as rafters tho!!

lakill Farm

bought 7 x 7.5ft lengths of it back a few months ago for €80 off a lad who had worked on the Mullingar/athlone bike lane than runs along railway track.

He got 80 euro but I got 7 great gate hangers .

foxy farmer

At up to €9/ft they ain't cheap.

Reggie.

They can bend as gate posts sometimes tho

lakill Farm

Reggie. wrote: »

They can bend as gate posts sometimes tho

The CIE stuff I have never seen them twist. I have a heavy 16ft hanging off one here. Only twisting it did was my back lifting the thing

The Bord na mona rail tracks twists alright but its lighter stuff

Reggie.

lakill Farm wrote: »

The CIE stuff I have never seen them twist. I have a heavy 16ft hanging off one here. Only twisting it did was my back lifting the thing

The Bord na mona rail tracks twists alright but its lighter stuff

Maybe it was that stuff

lakill Farm

foxy farmer wrote: »

At up to €9/ft they ain't cheap.

No, I gave him €80 / 7no / 7.5ft = €1.52 a foot

Sure 7x4 rsj is about €6 ft

patsy_mccabe

Reggie. wrote: »

They can bend as gate posts sometimes tho

Jeez, the ones I have wont bend. That's for sure. Serious metal in them. They'd last a 100 years.

blue5000

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Jeez, the ones I have wont bend. That's for sure. Serious metal in them. They'd last a 100 years.

I wonder how long it will be before we have luas rail for hanging gates? Still have a shed here built with tram tracks, 1892 I think is on one of them.