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Originally Posted by dowlingm
Interesting - I thought there was more. No chance IE can swipe the CWR panels for somewhere else and put old panels there for the engineering trains?
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That is what they normally do. Track being lifted from the Dublin-Cork line could or will be used to replace older track on branch lines.
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http://www.nationaltransport.ie/down...trand_line.pdf
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The service suspension will result in the section from Belview Port (79 miles 1320 yards) to Rosslare Strand (110 miles 880 yards) being out of regular use. This is 30.75 miles in length and consists of 6.2 miles of continuously welded track (CWR) and 24.55 of jointed track. The majority of this jointed track is original 87lb bull head rail dating from 1903 – 1906 in 45 foot lengths. The timber sleepers have been periodically replaced in a plan patching operation at the rate of about 1000 sleepers per year. The present situation (if passenger traffic continued) is that there is need to replace 26,400 sleepers on about 22.5 miles of this track as being close to life expired or relay the section with second-hand CWR.
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