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Sat 08 Aug 2009Tracks to be closed for several weeks

A POTENTIALLY serious rail tragedy was averted in Dublin yesterday as a viaduct collapsed moments after a train passed over it.

Some 20m (65ft) of the viaduct over the Broadmeadow estuary between Malahide and Donabate in north Co Dublin collapsed shortly after 6pm.