The Dirty DART stations

Chinasea

I have been travelling from Dun Laoghaire DART station lately and am appalled at how filthy it is. OK it is not strew with litter but the whole place has not had a decent cleaning or moping ever by the looks of things. I think it is a disgrace. The ticket office is mankey, the whole place stinks. It also seems well over manned – too many chiefs and no cleaning Indians?

Doyler92

In fairness have you seen the state of the DART vehicles themselves.

minidazzler

Chinasea wrote: »

I have been travelling from Dun Laoghaire DART station lately and am appalled at how filthy it is. OK it is not strew with litter but the whole place has not had a decent cleaning or moping ever by the looks of things. I think it is a disgrace. The ticket office is mankey, the whole place stinks. It also seems well over manned – too many chiefs and no cleaning Indians?

Racist fcuker! :P

me-skywalker

Chinasea wrote: »

I have been travelling from Dun Laoghaire DART station lately and am appalled at how filthy it is. OK it is not strew with litter but the whole place has not had a decent cleaning or moping ever by the looks of things. I think it is a disgrace. The ticket office is mankey, the whole place stinks. It also seems well over manned – too many chiefs and no cleaning Indians?

Really? I never get any smell there, apart from a fart or a bit of sweat off some hard working ppl. In what way do you mean its filthy? DO you mean it needs a lick of paint? Or the ground needs a good scrubbing? Over-manned? I generally ever only see 2 people there and then in the office you would have bus drivers and other train drivers waiting for their shifts to start or just ended.

Doyler92 wrote: »

In fairness have you seen the state of the DART vehicles themselves.

really I think they are perfect for the service they provide....

Doyler92

me-skywalker wrote: »

really I think they are perfect for the service they provide....

That they are. I never said they aren't. I just said they are in not the best shape.

beauty101

I've been commuting to-and-from Dun Laoghaire by DART for 2 years + have to say it's not that bad...ok the ground in the ticket office could do with a sweepin + a moppin but nothing major..

there's far worse DART stations in my opinion for example..Sandymount

Chinasea

Yea - I mean the place needs a good scrubbing, power hosing from top to bottom. It is very dirty - absolutely GRIM. At most it gets a quick swish with a dirty mop and dirty water by the looks of things.

Scrambled egg

You should see Broombridge , its epic

Abi

Chinasea wrote: »

I have been travelling from Dun Laoghaire DART station lately and am appalled at how filthy it is. OK it is not strew with litter but the whole place has not had a decent cleaning or moping ever by the looks of things. I think it is a disgrace. The ticket office is mankey, the whole place stinks. It also seems well over manned – too many chiefs and no cleaning Indians?

I didn't know there were clean ones.

orourkeda

Scrambled egg wrote: »

You should see Broombridge , its epic

Absolutely. Now thats brutal.

Kilbarrack isnt great but Dun Laoghaire isn't that bad

CrazyRabbit

Scrambled egg wrote: »

You should see Broombridge , its epic

Yeah...who dropped a nuke there? They could use that station as a set location in a post-apocalypse movie.

Tar.Aldarion

Scrambled egg wrote: »

You should see Broombridge , its epic

lmfao at that place.... 'dart station' lol!

Mint Sauce

dart dosen't come to the west coast, nor the north or south coast for that mater, next thread please.

admiralofthefleet

shankill dart station is a depressing place

Tar.Aldarion

Wat's worse is trying to go home, falling asleep and walking up to see teh next stop is shankhill....and saying....where?!

mojesius

Scrambled egg wrote: »

You should see Broombridge , its epic

Ever go past it on Hallowe'en after work? It's a gauntlet I tell you!

Ghost Train

looks gas
http://www.dublinfo.net/img/rail/stat-broombridge-01.jpg

starlit

pearse st dart station isnt great either at least Connelly isn't too bad!
Maynooth and castleknock dart stations are quiet clean.

admiralofthefleet

Ghost Train wrote: »

looks gas
http://www.dublinfo.net/img/rail/stat-broombridge-01.jpg

looks like those pics of chernobyl

mojesius

Ghost Train wrote: »

looks gas
http://www.dublinfo.net/img/rail/stat-broombridge-01.jpg

This was post-refurbishment. No really, they properly cleaned it up a few years ago and after a month, it was worse than ever. More new shiny things to burn

mojesius

snuggles285 wrote: »

pearse st dart station isnt great either at least Connelly isn't too bad!
Maynooth and castleknock dart stations are quiet clean.

Just to clarify, not DART stations :eek:

starlit

mojesius wrote: »

Just to clarify, not DART stations :eek:

are they not? just pearse and connelly?

Run_to_da_hills

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

shankill dart station is a depressing place

I saw a guy sweeping the platform there with an old style broom recently.

beauty101

Ghost Train wrote: »

looks gas
http://www.dublinfo.net/img/rail/stat-broombridge-01.jpg

expect a hobo to be kippin on the bench wha??

admiralofthefleet

all of his equipment probably got robbed

mojesius

snuggles285 wrote: »

are they not? just pearse and connelly?

They're on the Longford - Maynooth - Dublin line, I think it's part of the 'intercity' service. Just a different type of train, more distance covered than the DART. Pearse/Connolly take both DART and intercity trains. Wow, I feel like a locomotive nerd. You're right though, they are nice stations

starlit

Ghost Train wrote: »

looks gas
http://www.dublinfo.net/img/rail/stat-broombridge-01.jpg

looks like an eerrie ghost town type train station....freaky! :eek::eek::eek:
Think a ball of hay rolling outside it might do the trick!

starlit

mojesius wrote: »

They're on the Longford - Maynooth - Dublin line, I think it's part of the 'intercity' service. Just a different type of train, more distance covered than the DART. Pearse/Connolly take both DART and intercity trains. Wow, I feel like a locomotive nerd. You're right though, they are nice stations

have taken the trains along those lines many occasions!;):D:cool:

Run_to_da_hills

People think Dart stations are messy, think back.

Before the Dart suberban trains were hand downs from regional routes, many carriages consisting of Cravens and Park Royals. These were eqipped with toilets that flushed their load directly on to the tracks. It was not uncommon to see crap and sh*t paper strewn along the sleepers at a station.

There was a notice in the toilets warning you not to flush the jacks when the train is in a station.

bobblepuzzle

Surprisingly the Tag on purple thingy is still standing after a couple of months at Broombridge... and still looks like new :eek: The other day going through Broombridge there was some guy on a horse and another on a mo-ped going up and down the platform...