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Heuston Station - Lockers

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  • 19-09-2013 2:38pm
    #1
    blockic
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    Does anyone know if their are currently luggage lockers in Heuston?


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    Hilly Bill
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    No lockers.


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    #3
    Judgement Day
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    What about at Connolly?


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,278 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    There is a Tipperary House B & B across the river from Heuston that has a left luggage service.

    For Connolly, cross Amiens Street to the internet café who over a similar service.


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    What about at Connolly?

    None but may be getting some soon.

    Busarras has some but they all broken .


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    loyatemu
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    there used to be automated lockers at Connolly, don't know why they ripped them out.


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    Judgement Day
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    There used to be manned left luggage facilities at both terminals right through the 1980s...more progress. The one in Connolly handled the parcels traffic too.


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    Banjoxed
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    there used to be automated lockers at Connolly, don't know why they ripped them out.

    They used the same sort of warped logic that lead to near universal car park charging at stations on the brink of the recession?


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    mystic86
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    Isn't there lockers in that room near the toilets at Heuston?


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    LXFlyer
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    mystic86 wrote: »
    Isn't there lockers in that room near the toilets at Heuston?

    No there are none in Heuston. The Tipperary House B & B now provides left luggage facilities.


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    Hilly Bill
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    there used to be automated lockers at Connolly, don't know why they ripped them out.

    They were being used for drug drops etc.


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    Judgement Day
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    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    They were being used for drug drops etc.

    Sounds a feeble excuse - should we stop the postal system too? :rolleyes:


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    I think mine has stopped already.


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    loyatemu
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    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    They were being used for drug drops etc.

    IIRC they installed them (while revamping the station concourse), they sat there out-of-service for about 2 years, they turned them on for maybe 6 months, then ripped them out.


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    Zoney
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    Absolutely pathetic, left luggage is such a basic facility to have at a railway station. Was caught out one time in Dublin expecting them at Connolly (they had signs for it and all!) - ended up using Busaras. Didn't have any bother with the Busaras ones myself in fairness.


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    The ones in Busaras are all broken. It makes sense these days not to have any at all for security reasons.


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    BenShermin
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    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    It makes sense these days not to have any at all for security reasons.

    Sigh! So I suppose every single central station that I've been to in continental Europe don't have any sense when it comes to security??


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    Hilly Bill
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    seems like it. Handy place to store a bomb.


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    BenShermin
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    If I recall correctly the bombs on London Underground and Madrid were "stored" on people. Perhaps we should get rid of them from the railways aswell?


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    Jamie2k9
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    what was the excuse for stopping them in Heuston, there were almost full unless you get there first thing in the morning.

    "security" is the biggest cop out if that was the reason. I don't think anybody would want to bomb Irish Rail stations. Same risk apply to storing baggage on trains.

    This just adds to the list of things why using a train is made very inconvenient.


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    LXFlyer
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    To be fair there are left luggage facilities within 5 minutes of both stations - it is hardly the end of the world!


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    Judgement Day
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    lxflyer wrote: »
    To be fair there are left luggage facilities within 5 minutes of both stations - it is hardly the end of the world!

    As another poster stated, it's just one more thing that inconveniences rail travelers. There's no excuse for it anymore than there's one for charging people extra to travel into the city centre by bus because Heuston's out in the suburbs.


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    LXFlyer
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    Most left luggage facilities I've used in recent years in both the UK and on the continent have all required security scans and staffed facilities.

    I suspect that this is a cost that IE feel is not one they want to bear.


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    TommiesTank
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    BenShermin wrote: »
    If I recall correctly the bombs on London Underground and Madrid were "stored" on people. Perhaps we should get rid of them from the railways aswell?

    Indeed, getting rid of people with bombs would work. You left yourself right open to that one.


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    Alun
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    lxflyer wrote: »
    Most left luggage facilities I've used in recent years in both the UK and on the continent have all required security scans and staffed facilities.
    I've used left luggage in stations in both Germany and Denmark in recent months, and neither have required any such thing. Both were fully automatic.


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    Morf
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    Alun wrote: »
    I've used left luggage in stations in both Germany and Denmark in recent months, and neither have required any such thing. Both were fully automatic.

    Pfft when have Germany or Denmark been able to operate a system in an efficient manner?


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    TommiesTank
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    Morf wrote: »
    Pfft when have Germany or Denmark been able to operate a system in an efficient manner?

    Well the Germans were fairly efficient back in the earlier to mid part of the 20th century.


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    Jamie2k9
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    lxflyer wrote: »
    Most left luggage facilities I've used in recent years in both the UK and on the continent have all required security scans and staffed facilities.

    I suspect that this is a cost that IE feel is not one they want to bear.

    Understand that staff are needed but there is lots of staff in Heuston station doing nothing most of the time. How many are sitting at the information desk day in day out.

    I don't agree about scanning facilities. Only in high risk places and baggage is scanned and many high speed services in Europe scan baggage boarding trains. This is for security reasons and if there was such risks here it would happen.

    There is no security risks in Ireland while there is staff available, it took in money for IE.

    They were more less automatic in Heuston so staffing plays a very small roll.


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    BenShermin
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    lxflyer wrote: »
    Most left luggage facilities I've used in recent years in both the UK and on the continent have all required security scans and staffed facilities.

    The UK is in a world of it's own. £8 and a security check last time I had to use it over there. Never again!

    Regarding the continent, what countries were you security checked in? I've used lockers in Brussels, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, Warsaw, and a on ferry between Tallinn and Helsinki in the last year or two and all were under €4 and none had security checks.


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    BenShermin
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    TommiesTank wrote: »
    Indeed, getting rid of people with bombs would work. You left yourself right open to that one.

    Getting rid of lockers with bombs in them would also work ;)


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    Morf
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    Busaras might improve with a few bomb blasts.


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