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Concerns over busy Tipperary railway crossing
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There are generally no more than four trains a day through that crossing. It is not a particularly busy road, at most you might collect 10 cars on either side of the crossing.
Aa regards ambulances or other emergrncy services the issue arises potentially at every level crossing in the country and there may well be a case for a protocol between IR and the emergency services to minimise delays and to stop trains where safe to do so. |
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Its put up or shut up.
If the local politicians are so worried they can pay to get a automatic level crossing installed. They might be surprised at what little difference it would make
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You are correct, an automatic crossing might well make little difference unless it was operated like the DART area level crossings where enhanced priority is given to road traffic.
In the case of Carrick on Suir this is a parish pump issue, there is no justification in the railway wasting resources on solutions which will have minimal impact in addressing an issue that is no more than a minimal infrequent irritation for a handful of people. Last edited by Inniskeen : 10-04-2015 at 06:43. |
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Centrally Controlled crossings can spend anywhere from 2.5-3.5 minutes down. I suspect that many can be even longer such as ones on the Cork line north and south of Limerick J which generally have a train in either direction passing within a minute or two of one another.
Automatic crossings should be put in places where manual ones are slowing down trains. |
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