[Article] Vandalism of Carrick-On-Suir trains putting schedules at risk

[Derek Wheeler]

Originally Posted by ccos

Cosidering theres only 6 services a day to carrick on suir it wouldn't take much effort from the old plod to do something about this, the odd patrol car around the area should narrow down the search,after all there can't be that many scumbags standing around on bridges? can there?

I think the problem is much bigger than this. Apart from incidents involving trains, railway land in general along parts of the route is used as a drinking den at night and a playground during the day. If IE are happy to fence off the Burma road in the west, which hasn't seen a passenger train in donkeys years, then they should really show some commonsense and fence off the line in Carrick, clonmel and Tipperary. The threat to passengers exists in these towns. It doesn't exist in Tubbercurry.

Im writing to Peter Roche and Carrick-on-suir Town Council.

[ACustomer]

The plods in CArrick are stationed about 300m from the railway and if the Signalman were to phone them when he accepted a train (in the afternoon and evening - the scumbags would be sleeping it off in the morning) they could get up off thier ar*es and take some action. A bit of fencing would not go amiss, and there is one footbridge which should be "caged" over. If that is not possible it should be dismantled and the locals told that they deserve to walk an extra 200 metres into town. However some demented human rights lawyer will probably object to this.

[ccos]

Well the gardai being in the neighbourhood of these ongoing events which were serious enough to make a national newspaper doesn't exactly sound like they're very keen on doing anything about it. Does it take a derailment or a fatality before they try to do something.