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Bord Na Mona Railway Lift Bridge

 
Royal Canal Way, Begnagh, County Longford, Ireland
 
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Bord Na Mona Railway Lift Bridge is a minor waterways place on the Royal Canal - Main Line between Camlin - Cloondara Junction (Junction of the Camlin River and the Cloondara Canal) (1 mile and 1¾ furlongs and 2 locks to the north) and Royal - Longford Junction (Junction of the Royal Canal with the Longford Branch) (3 miles and 6¼ furlongs and 2 locks to the southeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Camlin - Cloondara Junction is Machinery Bridge; ¼ furlongs away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Royal - Longford Junction is Old Begnagh Bridge; 4¾ furlongs away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.

Cloondara Middle Lock No 461 mile, ¾ furlongs
Richmond Harbour1 mile, ¼ furlongs
Richmond Harbour Bridge7¾ furlongs
Cloondara Upper Lock No 454 furlongs
Machinery Bridge¼ furlongs
Bord Na Mona Railway Lift Bridge
Old Begnagh Bridge4¾ furlongs
New Begnagh Bridge5 furlongs
Ballydrum Bridge1 mile, 7¼ furlongs
Savage Bridge2 miles, 4¼ furlongs
Killashee Lower Lock No 442 miles, 4¼ furlongs
 
 
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[Glenties] 8 km from Glenties. Bord na Móna bought 1,200 acres (490 ha) of bog in 1937 to be drained and cut for peat. By 1943 a railway had been extended from [Talyllyn Railway] the rebuilding of the ex-Bord na Mona locomotive. A new design for an 0-4-2 side tank locomotive was prepared by the railway's Chief Engineer John Bate [Galway] Friday and Saturday night. It was refurbished by the Irish Greyhound Board, Bord na gCon, and the facility is shared with the Connacht rugby team. Galway City [Rail transport in Ireland] the railway to dispose of its surplus Class 201 locomotives made surplus by the retirement of the Mark 3 coach fleet.[citation needed] Bord na Móna operates [Downpatrick and County Down Railway] and so on Sunday 15 January 1950, all the railways around Downpatrick were closed. The tracks were lifted in 1953 and Downpatrick station was handed [List of Private Passions episodes (2000–2004)] Flying Manuel De Falla Nana (From Seven Spanish Folk Songs) Gabriel Fauré Au Bord De L'Eau Leoš Janáček Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 - "From The Street" (1st Mvt [2018 in Ireland] immediately following structural assessment inspections. 24 October Bord na Móna announced that up to 430 workers are to be made redundant, with up to
 
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Railway Bridges
There are 90 bridges carrying country roads over Bord na Móna's railways, or carrying the railway over canals and rivers. The road bridges are of reinforced ...
Richmond Harbour – Cloondara – Royal Canal Greenway
Approximately 1.5 km beyond Begnagh Bridge the Bord na Móna light-railway crosses the canal via another lifting bridge (non-automatic) which is normally kept ...
bridges of offaly county: an industrial heritage review
Nov 20, 2005 ... particular bridges carry Bord na Mona peat railways over minor ...... was built in the 1960s and is a rare example of a lifting bridge (fig. 3.33a).
Derelict Lifting Bridge on the Grand... © JP cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph ...
Jul 11, 2011 ... Formerly used by narrow gauge Bord na Mona trains working on the adjacent peat bogs.
Green & Silver – IWAI Dublin
Lift-outs around locks are permitted for canoes and small boats; A limited ... Begnagh Bridge (Road) and a Bord Na Móna (rail) bridge between locks 43-44.
Bord na Móna - Wikipedia
Bord na Móna is a semi-state company in Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act 1946. The company began developing ...
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Dublin North Wall, lifting bridges and sea lock (Start of. Spencer Dock) ... Railway Bridge and 7th Lock, Liffey Junction .... Bord na Móna railway lifting bridge and.
Lock 12 to Ticknevin – IWAI Kildare
This decline continued after the opening of the Dublin to Cork railway line and then the Dublin to Galway line in .... The Bord na Mona Lifting Bridge is not in use .
Peat | Bord na Móna
Bord na Móna is probably best known for its peat business. This division harvests and supplies peat to other business units within the company.
BORD NA MONA
This map shows the various Bord na Mona bogs (numbered 1 to 25) as well as ... and 104) in use at Beragh lifting track of closed Belfast - Omagh - Londonderry line. .... The other was on a train of side-tippers obtaining ballast from a stone quarry .... of milled peat at Shannon Bridge power station (no locomotives of its own), ...