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University would be another example.

This is very true. University is of course one of three stations in the UK with that name...

My memory tells me there was a case on Northern Ireland Railways - can't find a lot of details or the accident report online but IIRC it was the one at Slaght level crossing in 1990. Driver's warning light was not flashing; train crossed level crossing; fatalities in car and on train; train...

Not on the national network - but, there again, that wasn't specified in the original post :D - what about Cynfal Halt on the Talyllyn? Both wider and longer than it was pre-preservation, mind you...

I possess a wonderful book, "Railway Management at Stations" by E.B. Ivatts of the Midland Great Western Railway (5th Edition, 1910). On the subject of ticket inspection he starts well, but then it starts to get a little odd:

You could argue the case for the three Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT locos built for Bord na Mona in 1949 (works nos. 2263-5) - two survive largely as built (at Stradbally and Giant's Causeway) and one donated all its major parts to the building of Talyllyn No. 7 "Tom Rolt".

I recall some years ago being shown a photograph of a Iarnród Éireann station - I think it was on the Limerick Junction-Waterford line - with a payphone under the canopy. Next to the payphone was a sign saying something like "If this telephone rings, please answer it. There may be an important...

Excellent timing with the RAIB report into the washout at Knockmore having come out today - makes interesting reading. I particularly enjoyed sections 107 and 112. Mod Note: see NIR Train suspended on washed-out track thread.

They had the Barclay 0-4-0WT "Shane" running in August when we visited - looked extremely tired and was only pulling 4 carriages (passenger capacity of entire train: 48), but there was no sign of the railcar set at all.

Do we know where they are intending to extend it to - is it just to a more favourable station site within Bushmills?