Yuku free message boards

101sean wrote:

---

If it is the Silvermines branch, IE marked their territory last year by painting the level crossing gates on the Nenagh road!

Did ya happen to notice if they painted the level crossing gates on the Silvermines branch, the people of Silvermines where glad to see the back of the mine, the gradient on the branch was very steep, you could hear the Aclass for miles, it was a very dirty kip, you'll never see its like again, some people will say ''thank God'' the dust got in the eyes, up the nose, if nothing else, ya'll always remember the dust, then when it closed the site was used by guys in rubber suits and masks to spray wagons and fumigate rolling stock.
There was talk about binliner trains to Silvermines and possible 2x141s haulage, a gricer's paradise, but the people of Silvermines where having none of it, and so the Silvermines branch which opened in 1966, died a death, but all the poison and that awful tailing pond is still there, but the trains have gone.
Regards
h.gricer