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Rationalised track layouts

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I like rationalised track layouts, not the brutal remodellings but the gentler renewals that leave subtle hints of a former layout.

Abrupt transitions

Ennis June 2001 a135

Straightlined turnouts (x2)

Ennis 157 June 2001 a170

Undulating loops

2817 + 2818 at Nenagh with the 13 minute late 1655 Limerick - Ballybrophy. The service was delayed due to congestion at Killonan Jct. between up and down Limerick Jct. shuttles. Sat 04.05.19

Resignalled with ground position lights and stop boards these remnants add character and history to an otherwise dreary network.

Spindly, wonky, unexplained... as characteristic of its time as the diamond crossing or the goods loop and something we should capture while we still can.

Any more? The no headshunt, the widely-splayed stub, the fan of one sidings...

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