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The normalisation of trespass?

  • 25-04-2016 10:28AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,061
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    Following the recent mass trespass incidents across the pond with Flying Scotman's relaunch I see this...I know it's closed due to flooding but it's still trespass by public representatives who should know better.

    http://www.clarecourier.ie/article.asp?id=5148


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 Jem72
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    Which is more outrageous - Local representative standing on a railway line that's been closed for six months or the fact that an operational railway line closes for six months after being closed for months every winter for the last few years?

    The guy does raise a good point - Irish Rail / the government need to either close this down or invest in a permanent solution. It is a complete waste of money to leave it as it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,061 whisky_galore
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    He can make his point just as well without the photo shoot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 sporty56
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    Well done to newspaper and councillor on highlighting the ongoing reality of no service and no solution coming down the tracks. Old saying of picture worth a thousand words comes to mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 Losty Dublin
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    Jem72 wrote: »
    Which is more outrageous - Local representative standing on a railway line that's been closed for six months or the fact that an operational railway line closes for six months after being closed for months every winter for the last few years?

    The guy does raise a good point - Irish Rail / the government need to either close this down or invest in a permanent solution. It is a complete waste of money to leave it as it is.

    The issue that's causing the constant flooding of recent years isn't on railway property. CIE say it's OPW's problem to sort out as it's a river and lake that flood so they won't address it. OPW say it's CIE's problem to sort out as it affects the line most of all so they won't address it. Until one or other body address it then it will never get sorted out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 Del.Monte
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    Will they sort it out before the WRC is converted into a Greenway? :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 Banjoxed
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    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Will they sort it out before the WRC is converted into a Greenway? :D

    There's a vewy speshal place for that sort of thing! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,620 Cookie_Monster
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    Who is to say he doesn't have permission to be there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 Losty Dublin
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    Who is to say he doesn't have permission to be there?

    If he had permission then he'd be wearing appropriate safety clothing to be on or near the track ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,620 Cookie_Monster
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    If he had permission then he'd be wearing appropriate safety clothing to be on or near the track ;)

    what, a canoe in this case :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,061 whisky_galore
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    You wouldn't traipse through someone's private yard or a factory premises without having any business to conduct and permission to go there, what makes the railway any different?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,537 end of the road
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    what, a canoe in this case

    a high vis jacket and other safety equipment. it's his duty to wear such if he is there on the permission of irish rail, regardless of whether the railway is open or closed, running or not running.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 savagethegoat
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    yes , it is sending out the wrong message.

    Someone watching this may feel it's OK to be on a railway line when there are no trains running, the problem being, they have no way of knowing if indeed there are no trains running.

    Lack of a hi viz etc makes me believe that this guy was not there with IEs knowledge. It's entirely possible that an engineers inspection train may have approached at any time even though the line is flooded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 sporty56
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    Pity CIE sold off Naomh Eanna


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 Losty Dublin
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    what, a canoe in this case :D

    And a life jacket :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,061 whisky_galore
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    Drivers are getting increasingly jumpy when they see non-hi vis clad people getting too near the rail line, with the number of personal tragedies these days.

    Some photographers think they're entitled to come out onto the running lines in instances. Steam railtours tend to attract this activity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 savagethegoat
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    if you are anywhere near the line, drivers tend to touch the horn and I imagine it's a bit of a relief to them when you acknowledge. I always do


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,110 monument
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    He can make his point just as well without the photo shoot.

    I don't think he can -- A picture is worth a thousand words.
    You wouldn't traipse through someone's private yard or a factory premises without having any business to conduct and permission to go there, what makes the railway any different?

    Public ownership and making a political point.

    The law isn't black and white. For example, people accused of attacking aircraft in Shannon we not convicted because they successively argued that they were coming to the defence of others.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 Pro Hoc Vice
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    If he had permission then he'd be wearing appropriate safety clothing to be on or near the track ;)

    Why the track is closed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,537 end of the road
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    Why the track is closed!

    that doesn't matter.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 Pro Hoc Vice
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    that doesn't matter.

    There is still no evidence he is trespassing. From the look behind and the dept of that water don't think even if a train was in that line it could approach that spot at any kind of speed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 Losty Dublin
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    There is still no evidence he is trespassing. From the look behind and the dept of that water don't think even if a train was in that line it could approach that spot at any kind of speed.

    Unless he has permission to be on the track then he's trespassing on a railway. The fact that he isn't wearing safety wear in shot tells us that he isn't almost certainly isn't there under the watch of Irish Rail.

    Of course, the onus is on Irish Rail to follow this up legally if it's an issue with them :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 Pro Hoc Vice
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    Unless he has permission to be on the track then he's trespassing on a railway. The fact that he isn't wearing safety wear in shot tells us that he isn't almost certainly isn't there under the watch of Irish Rail.

    Of course, the onus is on Irish Rail to follow this up legally if it's an issue with them :)

    Exactly the only people who will know if he is trespassing is him the photographer and IR.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,272 Losty Dublin
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    Exactly the only people who will know if he is trespassing is him the photographer and IR.

    If he had permission then he will have had safety wear on. Even Irish Rail staff are disciplined for not wearing same when trackside.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,183 Itssoeasy
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    If he had permission then he will have had safety wear on. Even Irish Rail staff are disciplined for not wearing same when trackside.

    Even on a flooded railway though losty ? I know they shouldn't do it but I would have assumed a flooded line was different.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 Carawaystick
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    What if he swam and happened to cross the railway?

    If IÉ said there's bus substitutions due to the railway being blocked by flooding, then it's hard to see how there's any safety issue.

    If a train could pass, then IÉ have misled potential customers, ad would be guilty of a criminal offence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 savagethegoat
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    Why the track is closed!

    he has no way of knowing if it is closed or a maintenance or inspection train might be due unless he is there with official IE sanction, which he isn't as he has no safety gear on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,297 savagethegoat
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    There is still no evidence he is trespassing. From the look behind and the dept of that water don't think even if a train was in that line it could approach that spot at any kind of speed.

    what you think doesn't enter into it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 Pro Hoc Vice
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    what you think doesn't enter into it.

    If it is a question of trespas either civil or criminal what we all think is very much the issue, it is a forum after all. Or is only what you think of any value.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,620 Cookie_Monster
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    he has no way of knowing if it is closed or a maintenance or inspection train might be due unless he is there with official IE sanction, which he isn't as he has no safety gear on.

    lets be real for a second here, there is not going to be a train travelling through the water here at speed.
    there is the tiniest possibility of a maint / inspection train approaching at very low speed, hardly an actual danger. I don't agree with him trespassing but the actual risk is zero.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 BoatMad
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    Lads , I have a few pins that need the counting of angels


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