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Train failure at Balbriggan this morning

  • 11-01-2012 7:58pm
    #1
    dublinman1990
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    Was anyone at Balbriggan when their train broke down this morning? I understood that the delays were up to 40 minutes long.

    The train involved only had six carriages, I'd suppose there were a lot of people delayed.

    Does anyone know where that train was heading to?


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  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
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    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    Does anyone know where that train was heading to?

    to or from Connolly... depends what it was, DART, commuter or Enterprise


  • #3
    Terrontress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    Does anyone know where that train was heading to?

    to or from Connolly... depends what it was, DART, commuter or Enterprise
    Can DART emus go to Balbriggan?


  • #4
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    If it was at Balbriggan, well definitely there are no DART's going there, so, it would be commuter or enterprise services delayed.


  • #5
    fullback4glin
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    It was pure chaos, some local farmer tried to move his cows along the lines between services!


  • #6
    dublinman1990
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    fullback4glin wrote: »
    It was pure chaos, some local farmer tried to move his cows along the lines between services!

    Is that same local farmer live near Skerries or in it? The commuter and enterprise services were only going from Drogheda to Skerries as I recall.


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  • #7
    Drimnagh Road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Drimnagh Road


    If it was 6 carriages then it can only have been a 6x piece 2800 (3x sets). I think the 06:47 ex Drogheda-Pearse does be formed of 2800s.

    A DART also failed at Portmarnock this morning with "door interlock :confused:" problems, passengers detrained and the set went off empty. Passengers put onto the following 09:00 ex Malahide.


  • #8
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Drimnagh Road wrote: »
    A DART also failed at Portmarnock this morning with "door interlock :confused:"

    It means that the driver didn't get the warning light to go either on or off in his cab to show that all the doors on the set were closed properly. Kind of like your door-closed light on your car dashboard.

    "Door interlock" is the drivers manual term for it AFAIK. If you don't get it, you can't/shouldn't move the train.


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