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DART stoppage last night and this morning

  • 31-10-2007 12:13pm
    #1
    Beano
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    Does anybody have any info the dart delays last night and this morning? I was getting the dart home from Pearse last night at 11.00 and the trains were delayed because of a train failure in dun laoighre. Going to work this morning the trains were delayed and the excuse given was the same. How can a train failure take 9 hours to clear? Is there no way for the other darts to go around the train that failed?


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  • #2
    Victor
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    Apparently Booterstown - Howth Junction is two-way on either track, whereas other areas are a bit more complicated when a train needs to pass a failed train.

    http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/11404972?view=Eircomnet&cat=Breaking News
    Southbound DART services restored
    From ireland.com08:47Wednesday, 31st October, 2007
    South-bound DART services have been restored after a mechanical fault on a train at Dún Laoghaire halted services between Booterstown and Bray earlier this morning.

    A spokesman for Irish Rail said that all services were now operating normally but that there still delays.


  • #3
    KC61
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    Beano wrote: »
    Does anybody have any info the dart delays last night and this morning? I was getting the dart home from Pearse last night at 11.00 and the trains were delayed because of a train failure in dun laoighre. Going to work this morning the trains were delayed and the excuse given was the same. How can a train failure take 9 hours to clear? Is there no way for the other darts to go around the train that failed?

    I think that you'll find that they were two different train failures.


  • #4
    spareman
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    I seen an intercity train in Dun Loaghaire broke down at 20.30, I think it was destined for Drogeda.


  • #5
    ixoy
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    KC61 wrote: »
    I think that you'll find that they were two different train failures.
    No I don't believe they were.

    I was in Connolly on Tuesday evening and it was a diesel train that broke down (a Rosslare Europort train I believe coming back in). It broke down at Dun Laoghaire. I got this from one of the staff at the station who were, interestingly enough, quite pissed off with how little information they were being given.

    Then yesterday morning a co-worker was coming from Dalkey. He had to get off and get a taxi and he noticed a diesel train stuck ahead of his. So it sounds like it was the same train still broken on the tracks - absolutely disgraceful if that's the case.


  • #6
    Beano
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    KC61 wrote: »
    I think that you'll find that they were two different train failures.

    There were 2 train failures on Tuesday night, the one in Dun Laoighre and there was also one at Tara Street. Presumably the one in Tara street was cleared overnight as the announcement on wednesday morning said the problem was in Dun Laoighre.


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  • #7
    ixoy
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    Beano wrote: »
    There were 2 train failures on Tuesday night, the one in Dun Laoighre and there was also one at Tara Street. Presumably the one in Tara street was cleared overnight as the announcement on wednesday morning said the problem was in Dun Laoighre.
    Aye, I'm not sure what the one in Tara Street was - possibly a DART - but it must've been easier to clear.

    Hilariously, my train (rush hour one from Malahide) was cancelled this morning, so that leaves Irish Rail with a screw up every day of the week for me - a new record by even their considerably low standards. Fare rises all round to reward them!


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