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Irish Rail - 17.40 ex-Rosslare hits obstruction near Ferns

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  • #2
    Vic_08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    They might as well go ahead and shut the line it seems to be jinxed. :(

    That'll be the sound of your knee smashing through your skull then.


  • #3
    Stonewolf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭Stonewolf


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    They might as well go ahead and shut the line it seems to be jinxed. :(

    Don't you be giving them ammunition, I doubt it'd surprise any of us if they tried that excuse ;)


  • #4
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Dick probably put the obstacle there himself ....sure anywhere south of his ideal terminus in Gorey would do :D


  • #5
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,468 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    anyone know what it was yet?


  • #6
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Just heard it from the horse's mouth - it was rocks on the line, placed there by Dick Fearn local village idiots bored with vandalising the local C of I cathedral. :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    Southsider1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 674 ✭✭✭Southsider1


    Did the driver not see the rocks? That train never gets above about 40kmph...


  • #8
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Southsider1 wrote: »
    Did the driver not see the rocks? That train never gets above about 40kmph...

    Apparently he did but even the Rosslare 'Express' can't stop on a sixpence. :D


  • #9
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Another broken 22k set to add the rake of broken 22ks at Laois depot. An 071 would have ate the rocks and spit them back through its turbo charger.:pac:


  • #10
    steamengine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    Here's the 'guy' that sweeps rocks or other debris lying on the rail head itself, and prevents wheel damage or worse. Called a 'guard iron' 'life guard' !!!

    220px-Lifeguard_on_Class_43_powercar.jpg


  • #11
    Hungerford
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭Hungerford


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    Another broken 22k set to add the rake of broken 22ks at Laois depot. An 071 would have ate the rocks and spit them back through its turbo charger.:pac:

    It clearly wasn't Dick - it sounds like the work of the continunity IRN. :eek:


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  • #12
    BenShermin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭BenShermin


    Hungerford wrote: »
    It clearly wasn't Dick - it sounds like the work of the continunity IRN. :eek:
    I hear the RUI are sending some staff down in grey vans down to investigate.


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