Cork Station closed.

[Broithe]

Cork Services operating to/from Mallow. Cork/Cobh & Cork/Midleton suspended until further notice due to damage to Kent station roof.

 

The wind, I presume.

[Garfield]

Part of the roof has been blown off:

 

Edit: NewsTalk have just posted an image of the damage on Twitter:

 

Edited December 18, 2013 by Garfield

[Broithe]

Blimey! Looks nasty.

 

Maybe they need Glenderg to rebuild it....

 

 

No mention of injuries - these things often give some warning before the final collapse.

 

Let's hope everyone's OK.

[Garfield]

A closer shot (again via Twitter) here:

 

Looks like a railcar (2600?) set got caught up in it...

[BosKonay]

Woah!

 

[BosKonay]

[Broithe]

There's a bit of collateral damage to some cars there in that last shot.

 

Still no mention of injuries.

[BosKonay]

Irish Times now reporting three injured. Confirming the 2600 was out of service at the time.

[BosKonay]

[BosKonay]

[Broithe]

Another Twitter picture - https://twitter.com/EimearMcCormack/status/413335317702508544/photo/1

[Garfield]

Three people have suffered minor injuries, according to the Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/three-injured-after-roof-at-cork-train-station-collapses-1.1631691

 

Could have been worse!

[BosKonay]

 

Could have been an awful lot worse from the photos!

[Broithe]

Still unclear, but there may "only" be one person injured - a female passenger.

[RedRich]

Hopefully everyone concerned will be ok. The winds are atrocious in Waterford today, a couple of neighbours roofs have blown off their sheds, I can't begin to imagine how bad it is in Cork.

 

Rich,

[scahalane]

Such a shame that was a beautiful canopy. Looks like the columns have snapped in half. No doubt they'll replace it with something god awful ugly!! And just as I was about to start modelling it..

[Garfield]

Such a shame that was a beautiful canopy. Looks like the columns have snapped in half. No doubt they'll replace it with something god awful ugly!! And just as I was about to start modelling it..

 

It's possible it's a protected structure. If it is, they'll have to rebuild it rather than replace it.

[scahalane]

The term protected structure doesn't exist when it comes to IE

[Broithe]

We're back to three injured - one taken to hospital and two treated at the scene.

 

Could have been much worse.

 

Best wishes to the three.

[heirflick]

 

jesus ...it looks like a bomb went off here. cant believe there were so few casualties - thank God.

 

been listening to IE telemetery - theres a lot of reports of debris blown accross the dublin/limerick line. all minor stuff.

thanks for the report and pics lads.

[Broithe]

There's a lot of heavy, pointy and splintery stuff there - very lucky, I would say.

 

[BosKonay]

Just tweeted

I built a model of Kent station . #badtaste #Cork pic.twitter.com/YMJ9vdx4d8

[heirflick]

There's a lot of heavy, pointy and splintery stuff there - very lucky, I would say.

 

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wonder if there is much damage to her?

[Broithe]

wonder if there is much damage to her?

 

Mmmm, the amount of sundering might suggest that it didn't come down slowly..

 

.. you can never really tell until you recover the situation..

 

.. a chap near me fell through the roof of his greenhouse and it took us fifteen minutes to carefully lift all the glass off him - not a mark..

 

..but he could have been cut to pieces.

[Broithe]

Kent Station partially re-opened - should have full services again in the morning.

[Glenderg]

The term protected structure doesn't exist when it comes to IE

 

Bang on Scahalane.

 

The entire complex is recorded on the list of protected structures, and no doubt the decision makers in IE will look to install a modern replacement. Whatever happen's, they'll have to apply for planning permission, and I'll be taking a mighty interest in it. What's more appalling about this is that it highlights quite clearly, Iarnrod Eireann's apparent lack of maintenance and inspection of core infrastructure. Cast Iron does tend to be brittle, but the way they designed and assembled the structure originally should have coped with the wind loading.

Richie

[Georgeconna]

Spot on Glenderg. God knows what else lies around the network waiting to spring a surprise....

[Warbonnet]

Spot on Glenderg. God knows what else lies around the network waiting to spring a surprise....

 

Jesus don't say that, about to go over the barrow on a very late Galway Dublin!

[Horsetan]

Bang on Scahalane.

 

The entire complex is recorded on the list of protected structures, and no doubt the decision makers in IE will look to install a modern replacement. Whatever happen's, they'll have to apply for planning permission, and I'll be taking a mighty interest in it. What's more appalling about this is that it highlights quite clearly, Iarnrod Eireann's apparent lack of maintenance and inspection of core infrastructure. Cast Iron does tend to be brittle, but the way they designed and assembled the structure originally should have coped with the wind loading.

Richie

 

The thing we should also remember is that the canopy survived several decades, and CIE/IE's parsimonious neglect. The cynic in me (and I'm a cynical man, Ted, as ye know) wonders if IE were hoping that this thing would fall down eventually, so that they could whip in a new glass-and-steel version.....or save money and leave the platform exposed.

[heirflick]

id say the canopy will never be replaced. you'll see the standard steel bench with the standard steel shelter scattered along the platform as is the case in portarlington.

[Glenderg]

id say the canopy will never be replaced. you'll see the standard steel bench with the standard steel shelter scattered along the platform as is the case in portarlington.

 

There will be a mother and father of a row if they tried pulling that stunt.

 

I had the good fortune last year to work on cast iron buildings in Liverpool, and they are put together like lego. The base is installed, the column sockets into it, and the cap then locks into the top. The current logic would be to fill them with lean mix concrete to solidify the column, but that didn't happen. The columns didn't snap as I thought, they just unlocked from their collars. The parts are lying about in this photo.

 

 

 

So there must have been an updraft of some force to unseat the connections. Then I wondered why during the extensive roof renovations last year by Weslin was the platform ignored?

 

http://www.weslin.ie/projects/civil-engineering/kent-station/

 

Then Horsetan posted, and it's all getting weird! Richie.

[Broithe]

there must have been an updraft of some force to unseat the connections.

 

The parents had a sort of tornado affair this afternoon in Rathdowney, Co Laois. Brought a tree down across the road ( which they've moaned about for years! ) and sucked the gravel off the drive and spat it at the windows - two traffic cones went about fifty yards - etc..

 

There's just no arguing with those sorts of things. We had a proper tornado in Cyprus, Christmas Eve 1970 - the aftermath looked like a lawnmower had run over a train set.

[heirflick]

when you see those pics, its a miracle that there wasnt more injuries. i suppose that the health and safety lads will have to inspect every new structure completed in the last few years.

[jhb171achill]

When they rebuild it, will they employ our experts here to weather it?

 

Just getting me coat...

[Garfield]

The wind which destroyed the canopy is being described as a "mini tornado"...

 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/mini-tornado-destroys-part-of-kent-station-roof-253112.html