{"id":345,"date":"2021-08-07T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2021-08-07T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T15:04:16","slug":"it-is-not-just-irish-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/it-is-not-just-irish-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"It is not just Irish Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the ongoing issues faced by Irish Rail is bridge strikes &#8211; primarily caused by overheight lorries hitting railway overbridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A substantial number of railway overbridges are height restricted, unlike modern day road over road bridges, hence it is not often that you hear of a bridge strike that is not railway related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/leinster\/2021\/0807\/1239589-n7-delays\/\">Today, we have such an event &#8211; a lorry carrying hay hit the new road overbridge on the Naas bypass carrying the Sallins Bypass over the N7.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ongoing issues faced by Irish Rail is bridge strikes &#8211; primarily caused by overheight lorries hitting railway overbridges. A substantial number of railway overbridges are height restricted, unlike modern day road over road bridges, hence it is not often that you hear of a bridge strike that is not railway related. Today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}