Bag left on train

AniJ

Hi,

I left a bag of VERY important work documents on the over head luggage rack on 18.35 train from Heuston to Waterford yesterday, Fri 2nd May. It was 7.30 before I realised I was missing it, I rang around in a panic but all the offices were shut for the long weekend. The only person I got to talk to was a fella on the info desk in Heuston and he told me to call back on Tuesday. I'm terrified it will have disappeared by then. Is there anything at all I can do before that?

Please Help

corktina

go to Waterford station? slim chance though

F1ngers

Call +353 (0)1 703 3299 (Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00) for all services into/ out of Heuston Station.
http://www.irishrail.ie/contact-us/faqs

Being a bank holiday you may have to wait until tuesday.

irish gent

It should be in the lost and found from Tuesday don't worry good luck..

AniJ

corktina wrote: »

go to Waterford station? slim chance though

Hi Corktina,

I got off the train in Kildare but if I knew the office was going to be opened I'd be on the train down there now but no one is picking up the phone so I assume they're closed. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

Losty Dublin

AniJ wrote: »

Hi Corktina,

I got off the train in Kildare but if I knew the office was going to be opened I'd be on the train down there now but no one is picking up the phone so I assume they're closed. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

Call Waterford Station as well. If it was on the train when it arrived in they'd have picked it up upon arrival and tidy up. If you are lucky, they may even run it back up for you

051 873401

Jamie2k9

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Call Waterford Station as well. If it was on the train when it arrived in they'd have picked it up upon arrival and tidy up. If you are lucky, they may even run it back up for you

051 873401

Call 051 317899 the other number is just CIE group. Best call around a trains arrival/departure time (3.15-4.30 today or around 6)

AniJ

Update: Thanks so much to everyone who offered advice. The bag as handed in at Waterford and I got it back safe and sound!

irish gent

glad you got it back..

aliaslinden

Great that you got the bag back!

I left a bag yesterday on the 11.05 Galway to Dublin train. I got off in Portarlington having completely forgotten I had a second bag. It's one of those Wenger navy airplane bags that inconvieniently had basically every stitch of clothes I wear in it. The guys in Heuston havnet seen any sign of it as of yet so they reckon it's stolen. Guards are reviewing CCTV also.

Suppose I'm posting in case anyone comes across it! ( hopeful face)

postitnote

I hope you get your bag back soon.

Although you've already contacted the destination station, I would worry about others who come on here posting a description of their lost property before contacting the relevant authorities.

It could be very easy for someone to read a post and make a false claim for someone else's bag in a lost property office.

Maybe I'm too much of a pessimist.

corktina

Portarlington Gards report a naked person roaming the railway station.....

:-)

Hope you get it back aliaslinden

AniJ

Hi,

That's awful. I was on the Dublin>Waterford train and I rang every station along the way to ask if anyone handed it in. You could probably do the same. It mightn't have gotten all the way to the end of the line before someone realised it was abandoned and handed it in. People tend to get skittish about unattended bags faster nowadays. No harm in trying!

Hope you find it again,

AJ

yermandan

LOL at posts 11/12/13

aliaslinden

Ha! Probably wasn't wise to post such details on here alright. I ended up getting my bag back thankfully. I was half the day onto Heuston in work and they kept reassuring me that if it turned up they'd let me know, that the cleaners must have it etc. No joy at the end of the day so had to contact the guards to review train CCTV. Turns out Heuston didn't actually check the train properly and the bag was sitting there in the luggage bay. The train had already been recommissioned and sent to waterford with my bag still on it by the time I found out but eventually got my bag back.

thanks!

Seaswimmer

aliaslinden wrote: »

Ha! Probably wasn't wise to post such details on here alright. I ended up getting my bag back thankfully. I was half the day onto Heuston in work and they kept reassuring me that if it turned up they'd let me know, that the cleaners must have it etc. No joy at the end of the day so had to contact the guards to review train CCTV. Turns out Heuston didn't actually check the train properly and the bag was sitting there in the luggage bay. The train had already been recommissioned and sent to waterford with my bag still on it by the time I found out but eventually got my bag back.

thanks!

I think that despite everything we hear about crime in Ireland that MOST Irish people are inherently decent.

I think NOT getting your bag back would be the exception rather than the norm.

Spook_ie

aliaslinden wrote: »

Ha! Probably wasn't wise to post such details on here alright. I ended up getting my bag back thankfully. I was half the day onto Heuston in work and they kept reassuring me that if it turned up they'd let me know, that the cleaners must have it etc. No joy at the end of the day so had to contact the guards to review train CCTV. Turns out Heuston didn't actually check the train properly and the bag was sitting there in the luggage bay. The train had already been recommissioned and sent to waterford with my bag still on it by the time I found out but eventually got my bag back.

thanks!

Just as well it wasn't a bomb!

Hilly Bill

Spook_ie wrote: »

Just as well it wasn't a bomb!

If it was then i doubt if the OP would have posted on here about it and gone to the guards looking for it back .

AniJ

Glad you got your stuff back, aliaslinden!