Google Maps Image - what is it?

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Google Maps Image - what is it?

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Found this whilst browsing for info on the Guess the British Station Game. Is it a couple of derailed wagons with their load spilt onto the tracks, or possibly a train carrying new railway gravel, or nothing at all and a blurry picture.

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Re: Google Maps Image - what is it?

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It looks like some road trailers laying new ballast :?:
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Well there is no freight in Northern Ireland so it must be an infrastructure train and that must be ballast.
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Isn't there a restored steam railway around there? I'm sure there was a documentary on the BBC about it recently.
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There is the Downpatrick and Co. Down Railway at Downpatrick, well worth a visit as its the one place in Ireland where 5' 3 gauge steam trains run regularly (as far as I'm aware).
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