{"id":1679,"date":"2025-02-14T22:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2025-02-14T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:41:07","slug":"railway-carriages-to-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/railway-carriages-to-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway carriages to bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Between 1920 and 1943, the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee had an enterprising general manager in the form of Henry Forbes, a man whose initiative probably kept the company in better nick than most narrow gauge railways and especially its northern neighbour, the Londonderry &amp; Lough Swilly Railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things he was known for was actively reusing life expired equipment for different purposes and were he around today, he would undoubtedly be impressed with this activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Carolina, USA, suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Helene in September 2024, including the destruction of road bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came upon this <a href=\"https:\/\/foxchattanooga.com\/news\/local\/repurposed-rail-cars-bring-quick-relief-communities-cut-off-washed-out-bridges-hurricane-helene-north-carolina-department-transportation-ncdot\">news article<\/a> which showcases an innovative use of withdrawn railway carriages (referred to as &#8220;railcars&#8221; in the article), in forming temporary road bridges, allowing for the quicker restoration of connections than would be the case if localities had to wait for a conventional bridge to be installed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1920 and 1943, the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee had an enterprising general manager in the form of Henry Forbes, a man whose initiative probably kept the company in better nick than most narrow gauge railways and especially its northern neighbour, the Londonderry &amp; Lough Swilly Railway. One of the things he was known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}