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Coolmine station break-in

  • 15-02-2008 4:34pm
    #1
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭


    It's just over three weeks since the TVM was robbed from Coolmine station and the place has been robbed again!

    I was getting a train around lunchtime and a sign on the shutters said that the station was closed due to a break-in. It directed people to purchase their tickets at their destination.

    It looked like the shutters on the platform side were levered - the shutters were bent up a foot or two. Not something you'd do by hand!

    I bought my ticket from the ticket inspectors on the train.


Comments

  • #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    The 2nd TVM is out of action because of this break-in. The first one was stolen last month.


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Isn't it time they considered enabling these machines to take electronic payments? In this day and age, it can't be that difficult.

    I was at Leixlip Louisa Bridge car park there last week and I had exactly two Euro on me for the car-park ticket. Of course one of the coins jammed and all I had was a €20 note. So I had to chance it and run for my train. I was only too willing to pay by laser/credit card/mobile phone, but no, coins only. And I notice the exact same machines in Fitzwillaim Square and they are enabled to take mobile phone payments.

    Ah, just add it to the long list of things that IE are never going to be bothered considering. :mad:


  • #4
    Zoney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Zoney


    I'm surprised they don't take non-cash payments. I'm pretty sure I paid with a credit card before at the machines in Heuston Station, on an occasion where the shoddy banks hadn't bothered to restock the ATMs, apparently that's a problem on a Sunday. Banks are lousy cheapskate moneygrabbers that make IÉ look like a customer care specialist.


  • #5
    John R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭John R


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Isn't it time they considered enabling these machines to take electronic payments? In this day and age, it can't be that difficult.

    I was at Leixlip Louisa Bridge car park there last week and I had exactly two Euro on me for the car-park ticket. Of course one of the coins jammed and all I had was a €20 note. So I had to chance it and run for my train. I was only too willing to pay by laser/credit card/mobile phone, but no, coins only. And I notice the exact same machines in Fitzwillaim Square and they are enabled to take mobile phone payments.

    Ah, just add it to the long list of things that IE are never going to be bothered considering. :mad:

    Are you talking about the car park machines or the rail ticket ones? The rail ticket machines in my local station takes credit/debit cards and has done since they were installed.


  • #6
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    John R wrote: »
    Are you talking about the car park machines or the rail ticket ones? The rail ticket machines in my local station takes credit/debit cards and has done since they were installed.
    Sometimes the rail ticket machines will only accept coins (presumably due to a fault in the notes/credit and debit card portion of the machine).


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