Patrick Davey Posted March 6 Posted March 6 Work brings me to the midlands again and the obligatory visit to Moate - incredible to think this was once part of a double track main line route to the west. But at least it is being looked after and there might even be the remote possibility of it seeing trains again (hears the can of worms opening)!! 7
Horsetan Posted March 6 Posted March 6 1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said: ... (hears the can of worms opening)!! Sure, 'tis the sound of a can being kicked along the way...
Patrick Davey Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 1 minute ago, cheesy_peas said: Appears someone has been helping themselves to the roof. Yip noticed that - slates on the platform too. There are signs warning about CCTV but will that make a difference I wonder.....
GSR 800 Posted March 6 Posted March 6 1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said: Yip noticed that - slates on the platform too. There are signs warning about CCTV but will that make a difference I wonder..... The obvious thing to do is to actually use the building for something, ala Streamstown, rather than trying to keep it in good nick purely for presentation purposes. 1 3
Patrick Davey Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 2 minutes ago, Galteemore said: Nobody was nicking slates when Connery was watching Moate Might explain why the bricks are 'English Bond'....... 1 1
cheesy_peas Posted March 6 Posted March 6 52 minutes ago, Galteemore said: Nobody was nicking slates when Connery was watching Moate It's the lead they were after, to sell on as scrap metal.
Mayner Posted March 7 Posted March 7 5 hours ago, cheesy_peas said: It's the lead they were after, to sell on as scrap metal. Nothing new I am afraid. Back in the 60s when my father worked as a maintenance fitter with Fry Cadburys, a gang of thieves arrived on a Saturday morning and began stripping lead off the East Wall Road factory roof while production was continuing inside. The gang were pretty brazen parking in the carpark, dressing in overalls before putting up ladders to 'work" on the roof, even having breakfast in the staff canteen. Cadbury staff assumed that the thieves were from Colin Bros the contractors that regularly carried out work on the building. All was going well from the thieves perspective until the Factory Manager arrived mid-morning and advised that Colin Bros were not scheduled to work that morning. Thieves were thowing down/loading lead from the roof onto a truck parked out of sight at the back of the factory. Although we had 24hr security we had a major theft of copper cable from a Dublin construction site during a Christmas shut down during the late 90s that delayed completion by several weeks, would have been a major operation requiring a couple of trucks and heavy lifting gear. Security companies insurers eventually coughed up.
Mayner Posted March 7 Posted March 7 8 hours ago, Patrick Davey said: Might explain why the bricks are 'English Bond'....... Original brickwork "Flemish Bond" actually , I am a bit pedantic when it comes to brickwork and building details. Curiously 30 years ago one evening I carried out a photo survey of Moate while working in Athlone, at the time Mullingar-Athlone was theoretically usable, loop and signalling a Moate intact but track would have required re-laying to carry regular traffic. 1
Patrick Davey Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 14 minutes ago, Mayner said: Original brickwork "Flemish Bond" actually , I am a bit pedantic when it comes to brickwork and building details. Curiously 30 years ago one evening I carried out a photo survey of Moate while working in Athlone, at the time Mullingar-Athlone was theoretically usable, loop and signalling a Moate intact but track would have required re-laying to carry regular traffic. I had no idea what the brickwork actually was, just saw an opportunity for a crap joke 1
Patrick Davey Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said: I had no idea what the brickwork actually was, just saw an opportunity for a crap joke Even though SC was actually Scottish so the joke was rubbish on lots of levels 1
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