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Cork Kent Platform Canopy Collapse 18/12/2013

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finnyus

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At approximately 3pm on Wednesday, 19 Dec 2013 a freak storm hit Cork City and the surrounds with extremely strong winds and rain. A few seconds after the 3pm Cork - Cobh departed platform 2 at Cork Kent, the winds ripped the platform canopy off, with debris landing in the car park and out on the main road. Debris also hit a 2600 class DMU in platform 3, and another unit in the old carriage siding. A loco in one of the engine roads also got it. From other reports, the signal cabin got damaged as well. Thankfully no one was killed.

Here are a few pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finnyus/
 
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Darandio

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Thought this was yet another separate thread on the incident Finbarr, not a set of dramatic pictures. Apologies for my original post pointing to the original thread.

It really was quite dramatic wasn't it, the stock photo I had seen so far didn't seem to show anything like that.
 
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