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Unread 10-01-2018, 13:12   #14
Jamie2k9
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Originally Posted by ACustomer View Post
The main purpose of Waterford-Mallow since about 1906 was Rosslare Boat traffic, especially the Rosslare Express. This is from another era, and there is not much point in wasting energy on nostalgia for a beautiful line.

Maybe Goods has a point about the cost of automated crossings. It appears that CCTV monitored and fully signalled 4-barrier crossings are the standard. There are very widely used automatic half-barrier crossings which should be perfectly OK for a fraction of the cost (unless of course you cant trust Irish drivers going round them in pursuit of a Darwin award)
We had half barriers here for a while. Full barriers save a lot of potential problems and are the way to go. There are a lot of LC incidents in the UK annually, something which isn't the case here.
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