Have you spotted any sewer vents in Cork City?
If you spot a sewer vent in the Cork City area, Simon Lyons of the City Council is asking that you take a photo and tweet this to him @ThePoliteEng along with details of where the vent is.
RTE are reporting on the campaign to re-open Killucan Station in Co. Westmeath on the Dublin – Sligo line. I think the supporters of this are on a hiding to nothing. I don’t see the population base necessary to have such a station and playing on a GAA special in 1950 being packed is not reflective of today’s society.
IMHO, if a station were to be built between the former Hill of Down and Killucan Stations, especially if an SDZ for housing was adjacent, this might work as there could also be traffic from Kinnegad, but I can’t see the economics of it otherwise.
As a separate project, IR should consider a dynamic loop between such a new station and Killucan, thereby extending the range of track over which trains can pass on the otherwise single track line between Enfield and Mullingar.
you can buy anyone.
The BBC reports that a bridge in Rotterdam will be “temporarily” dismantled to allow a yacht built for Jeff Bezos’ to pass through.
Funny how they didn’t consider the height of the yacht before building it.
RTE reports that €35m of funds received under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund will be spent to “rejuvenate public piers and harbours”.
Laudable as this may be, I am at a loss to see how, exactly, this promotes economic development as a means to ameliorate the negative impact of Brexit. The move stinks of pork barrel politics.
RTE have archive footage about the lighthouse on The Bull off the Beara Peninsula in Co. Cork, which was taken in 1979. One of the ‘mod cons’ noted as available to the lighthousekeepers was a TV. I wonder did they have a TV licence?
RTE’s 100 Buildings series has an article about the Carroll’s tobacco factory in Dundalk.
RTE are running a series – 100 Buildings – which is a look at 100 features in Irish structures.
One of these articles looks at the building of electricity substations as part of the electrification of Ireland that followed the commissioning of the Ardnacrusha power station.
An interesting fact therein is that the ESB in house designer who produced the early ESB logo, which was a wave and thunderbolt design that can still be seen on some structures around the country, also worked as a freelancer and in this capacity, designed the flying snail logo for the Dublin United Tramway Company (which was retained by CIE upon its creation in 1945).
Trains hitting road vehicles on the line is, unfortunately, not uncommon, especially at level crossings.
RTE reports on an incident involving a light aircraft crash landing onto a railway line in Los Angeles in the USA and being hit by a train shortly afterwards.
Waterways Ireland have advised a 4 week closure of the towpath between Lock 12 and Hazelhatch on the Grand Canal, to facilitate site investigation works in conjunction with the proposed greenway extension from Lock 12 to Hazelhatch.
This could work on the South Wexford line, except that the national transport company in Ireland regards its primary purpose as property development and not public transport provision.