Train smashes through level crossing

An investigation is underway in Co Roscommon after a freight train ploughed through a level crossing.

An investigation is underway in Co Roscommon after a freight train ploughed through a level crossing.

The Ballina-Dublin train broke through the gates at Kiltoom, six miles from Athlone, early this morning.

There were no injuries but the gates were destroyed in the incident.

It is the second such incident at a level crossing in the west in six weeks.

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