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Irish rail and overcrowding

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  • 10-10-2014 6:29pm
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    loh_oro
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭


    I'm currently on the train to Westport and their is so many people on the train their is no room left to stand ... People are standing in the toilets its gone that bad. This happens every Friday so why is it that they don't have bigger trains to compensate for busy day's. When I buy a train ticket I don't expect to have to travel in the toilet


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    complain


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    jamesbere
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    Let off the biggest fart, you'll have plenty of room then.


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    RobertKK
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    It is worse than Japan...


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    What the fcuk is carrying everyone to that shit hole of a place?


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    cloud493
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    It's not a unique rail problem, bus is the same.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    All aboard the Bangladeshi express


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    Macavity.
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    Yeah, I get that train every week. It's hell to be honest. I have dinner early on a Sunday now so I can get the early (around 1pm) train back to Dublin. The two later ones are a nightmare on a Sunday evening.


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    Highflyer13
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    Cutbacks. Last October IR raised ticket prices while simultaneously taking carraiges off the trains.


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    Sunnyisland
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    This thread is going to be a wreck


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    Sub_Merged
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    fryup wrote: »
    complain
    I'm on a train, I can't complain....


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    kneemos
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    Can't buy extra carriages for two days a week.


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    clairek6
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    cloud493 wrote: »
    It's not a unique rail problem, bus is the same.

    Bus usually never let more people on than there are seats availiable though?


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    cloud493
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    Yes they do. That's why people stand at the front and in the wheelchair area.


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    Jawgap
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    Currently on a commuter train between Boston and Providence - Irish Rail need to get some of these double decker sets!! That would help address the overcrowding issue!


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    Call me Al
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    It seems it's no different now to when I was travelling dublin to westport and westport to dublin back on the weekends in the early 90s.


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    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    kneemos wrote: »
    Can't buy extra carriages for two days a week.

    They actually put on an extra train on a Friday, and sometimes on a Sunday for that route.


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    clairek6
    Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭clairek6


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Yes they do. That's why people stand at the front and in the wheelchair area.

    Ah I meant the national commuter buses, galway to dublin for example


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    The Strawman Argument
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    Do you walk right up to the final carriage? I always find on busy trains that there's huge congestion issues on the 3rd and 4th last carriages, been on trains where the final one actually has spare seats and all. People seem to have some huge fear of walking up to the final one.


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    kerry4sam
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    Currently on a commuter train between Boston and Providence - Irish Rail need to get some of these double decker sets!! That would help address the overcrowding issue!

    Oh I love those double-decker trains. Was on numerous ones over in Switzerland leaving Zurich. So so comfy and even have couches on the top-tier to lounge back on.

    Irish Rail can be pretty shocking. Sometimes in the past, even registering and choosing a seat means nothing.

    Alot more needs to be done to our transport here,
    kerry4sam


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    fryup
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    fryup wrote: »
    complain
    Sub_Merged wrote: »
    I'm on a train, I can't complain....

    complain to irish rail when you get a chance


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    michellie
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    I was on the train to Dublin once and it got like that, some people had to stand for a while, not as many as on your train. But a woman was shouting at the security guy about it- shouting at the bloody security guy. I had to say something, told her to cop on for herself that It had fk all to do with him, he doesn't sell the tickets. she piped down and he thanked me.


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    Cookie_Monster
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    Currently on a commuter train between Boston and Providence - Irish Rail need to get some of these double decker sets!! That would help address the overcrowding issue!

    Loading gauge in ireland isnt big enough to allow such carriages


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    Realt Dearg Sec
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    What the fcuk is carrying everyone to that shit hole of a place?

    The train.


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    Jawgap
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    fryup wrote: »
    complain to irish rail when you get a chance

    Or next time tweet about it with photos- Irish Rail are pretty good at monitoring their twitter feed for mentions (good & bad).


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    bnt
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    It's no better in the UK. Try getting from London Paddington to Reading on a Friday evening. Sure, the train is faster, but ... :eek:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    Richard Hillman
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    Sadly it will take an accident until proper safety standards on Trains and Buses are enforced.


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    oppenheimer1
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    Currently on a commuter train between Boston and Providence - Irish Rail need to get some of these double decker sets!! That would help address the overcrowding issue!

    They can't. The bridges are too low for them


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    oppenheimer1
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    Jawgap wrote: »
    Currently on a commuter train between Boston and Providence - Irish Rail need to get some of these double decker sets!! That would help address the overcrowding issue!

    They can't. The bridges are too low for them. Probably other reasons too.


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    hardCopy
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    What the fcuk is carrying everyone to that shit hole of a place?

    http://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/travel/news/2012/0625/326461-westport-named-best-place-to-live/

    Yeah, what a kip!


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    Rightwing
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    michellie wrote: »
    I was on the train to Dublin once and it got like that, some people had to stand for a while, not as many as on your train. But a woman was shouting at the security guy about it- shouting at the bloody security guy. I had to say something, told her to cop on for herself that It had fk all to do with him, he doesn't sell the tickets. she piped down and he thanked me.

    Some people are extremely dense.


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