Engineering
infrastructure and trains always fascinate me. On the way back from
Athy on the bike yesterday, I passed over this bridge across the old
Tullow line near Grangecon (just up the road from the gate lodge for
Ballynure House). It's always well maintained and seems to have had a
paint job. This is a jack-arch bridge that uses masonry arches abutted
by girders to support the deck above. The line was closed to passenger
traffic in 1949 and was used for carrying livestock up until 1952. The
last passengers carried on the line were in 1957 and 1959 when there
were two IRRS (Irish Railway Record Society) excursions.
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| © Eugene Brennan |
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| © Eugene Brennan |
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| © Eugene Brennan |
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| © Eugene Brennan |
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| © Eugene Brennan |
