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Over the last year I have done videos on my android phone documenting the remains of the Harcourt street line , I moved to Tullyvale Cherrywood which enabled me to cover the former railway line. My You Tube channel Stationtostation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFu5zwZPE_ufpqDILFNfmDg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFu5zwZPE_ufpqDILFNfmDg   I decided to cover the line over the following months doing approx 5 mins on each video taking photos as well and with the help of fellow enthusiastic  Mark Fagan who edited my vidoes . I enclose photos i took of the Bride's glen Viaduct back in 2009 . 





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