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Unread 15-05-2006, 12:17   #22
James Shields
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I was in Killiney over the weekend, so I got to try out the twin of the Blackrock and Booterstown bridges. It's a fair bit higher than the old bridges, presumably to allow the possibility of double decker trains in the future. You can see this from the big gap between the overhead lines and bridge floor. Naturally being higher, it requires more steps. I think the most offputting thing is that you have to make two 180 degree turns on the way up, and two more on the way down, which kind of interrupts your flow.

I think the double stairs would make sense if they made one up only and the other down only, though the two sets of stairs start from roughly the same point, so it wouldn't make things any easier for crowd control.
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