Replacement of the railway bridge over the Awbeg River

THE replacement of the railway bridge over the Awbeg River, north of Buttevant town and south of Charleville train station, was a mammoth task involving a huge number of construction and support workers who had to complete the task over the October bank holiday weekend.
The main contractor for the project was the Athenry, Co. Galway based Coffey Construction Company under the direction of works manager, Cathal Coleman, engineer, Declan Flanagan and trainee structural engineer Caitriona Henn and foreman Declan Lawless.
They had just 60 hours to complete the bridge replacement starting on last Saturday night at 10pm when trains on the Cork/dublin line were stopped and the track had to be back in operation on Sunday night.

[@TechSupport100]

Absolutely amazing "inside" view of what's involved in these mammoth projects. Thanks for posting this!

[@Gerone1]

Watched this because they metioned it on the Moncrief show today. Great video.

[@HARLEYBOY33]

Excellent Video, thanks for sharing -

[@s00072920]

Great job!

[@ronnie176401]

That was cool! Thank you!

[@stopmotion200]

is that crane a liebherr 11200?

[@dar143v8]

@stopmotion200 nahh its a ltm1750!!

[@ajbirney]

Not an ltm 1750!!..its the LG 1750 the mobile varient of the LR 1750 crawler crane..liebherr has just started delivering the ltm 1750 mobile in the last month..hope McNALLY'S add one to the fleet..