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Irish Rail messed up today!

  • 20-05-2013 6:31pm
    #1
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,796 ✭✭✭✭


    The majority of passengers boarded what they expected was the 18.30 to Galway this evening but the wrong platform was displayed. Some passengers saw the error before boarding moved to the right train but many didn't and only realised it when the 18.30 departed and announcements came on the wrong train that was traveling elsewhere.

    Just as well there was a 19.35 service.


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  • #2
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Where was the wrong train heading for and did many fail to get off in time?


  • #3
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,796 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Where was the wrong train heading for and did many fail to get off in time?

    I'm just after making a mistake it was the 17.30 service that had the mistake, don't know much detail as I was in a rush but a many passengers were left behind, many on the 17.30 are only commuters anyway so they would of got sorted faster but Galway passengers had to wait an hour. The train was due to go to Westport at 18.15 or Portlaoise at 18.10 AFAIK.


  • #4
    The_Wanderer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭The_Wanderer


    Only human at the end of the day. It happens very occasionally.

    Still not as bad as the one Sunday evening the Inspector flagged away a service to Limerick with only a wheelchair customer onboard. The rest of the not so amused intending passengers standing at the barrier.

    The Wanderer.


  • #5
    pointsman
    Site Banned Posts: 46 ✭pointsman


    The_Wanderer wrote: »
    Only human at the end of the day. It happens very occasionally.

    Still not as bad as the one Sunday evening the Inspector flagged away a service to Limerick with only a wheelchair customer onboard. The rest of the not so amused intending passengers standing at the barrier.

    The Wanderer.

    Same way I once remember being on board the 1715 GVS/Newry back in the day (around 2005) with the Gatwicks and a 111 on the front...Sat behind the loco and I think...God is today a bank holiday? This coach is awful quiet...So off we go...Thrash up through Adelaide....I take a glance behind and realise its empty throughout....Woops - Inspector didn't realise the 350 pax were standing behind the barrier still!


  • #6
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,796 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    From reading twitter it seems quiet a few were annoyed by the fact that when it error was realised nobody on the wrong train was told and when they were it was to late as the 17.30 had departed.

    Mistakes are mistakes which are fine but somebody should of told passengers as soon as it was realised, now I don't know how soon before departure it was or if there would of being time to.


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  • #7
    GBOA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭GBOA


    I took the messing up out of the hands of the rail operator and did it myself. I made a mistake of similar proportions when on an Edinburgh - London Kings Cross train. Sat down in my reserved seat and checked my ticket as I'm always paranoid about being on the right train, given the cost of penalty fares.

    I got it half right. Correct service, wrong day - the train I should have been on was the day previously, as was the job interview I'd been heading for. I got off and headed sheepishly, for the boozer.


  • #8
    SHOVELLER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭SHOVELLER


    Had to meet someone off the 18.10 from Galway yesterday. The arrivals screen said platform 6 so went down there and after about 10 minutes asked the ticket chap if the Galway train had come in yet. Told me to check the screen but it wasnt on the screen anymore. I surmised it was probably late. He told me to check the screen.

    After another 10 minutes asked a chap with a walkie talkie who told me the train had come in on platform 2!!


  • #9
    cbl593h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭cbl593h


    GBOA wrote: »
    I took the messing up out of the hands of the rail operator and did it myself. I made a mistake of similar proportions when on an Edinburgh - London Kings Cross train. Sat down in my reserved seat and checked my ticket as I'm always paranoid about being on the right train, given the cost of penalty fares.

    I got it half right. Correct service, wrong day - the train I should have been on was the day previously, as was the job interview I'd been heading for. I got off and headed sheepishly, for the boozer.
    I find if I'm out on a choo choo and there's 2 people having a barney over someone sitting in the other's reserved seat its usually because one is on the wrong train/ wrong day/ wrong time/ wrong month. The Americans fall foul mostly when they book tickets to travel on 07/08/13 and turn up on 08/07/13 because the month and day are other way round..........:)


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