{"id":1260,"date":"2024-01-27T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:34:32","slug":"automation-of-the-barrow-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/automation-of-the-barrow-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation of the Barrow Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Barrow Bridge on the mothballed Waterford to Rosslare Strand railway is an opening bridge, allowing for shipping access to\/from New Ross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bridge is currently inoperable (academic due to the mothballing of the line) due to a maritime bridge strike. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterfordlive.ie\/news\/local-news\/1405590\/reopening-of-the-waterford-rosslare-line-another-step-closer.html\">Irish Rail have stated that as part of the repair\/re-opening of the bridge, they plan to automate the opening of the bridge, allowing for control to switch to the National Train Control Centre in Dublin.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One wonders why there are not similar plans for the canal lifting bridge at Newcomen Junction in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barrow Bridge on the mothballed Waterford to Rosslare Strand railway is an opening bridge, allowing for shipping access to\/from New Ross. The bridge is currently inoperable (academic due to the mothballing of the line) due to a maritime bridge strike. Irish Rail have stated that as part of the repair\/re-opening of the bridge, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}