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The Dublin Coach Experience

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    #572
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    DC have suspended operations . The national fire service have therefore been stood down.:)


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    #573
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    #574
    salonfire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    Not just DC that suffer breakdowns.

    Also Bus Eireann will leave passengers at the road side


    The Letterkenny customers were over 100 miles from destination in the middle of the night

    Passengers who left Letterkenny on an early morning bus to catch flights in Dublin were left stranded 116 miles from their destination.



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    #575
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    salonfire wrote: »
    Not just DC that suffer breakdowns.

    Also Bus Eireann will leave passengers at the road side

    All operators can suffer from breakdowns including BE but it seems that DC often suffer from breakdowns because lack of routine maintence and running clapped out bangers of buses which belong in the scrap heap. To be fair to BE and most other operators that is not an issue.


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    #576
    salonfire
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    But did BE have to leave passengers stranded by the roadside.


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    #577
    Stephen15
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    salonfire wrote: »
    But did BE have to leave passengers stranded by the roadside.

    What else could they have done at 2 in the morning when depot maintence is likely closed and most other staff have gone home? It being in a different jurisdiction further complicates things.

    It's just risk you take when you travel late at night that if something goes wrong such as a breakdown your sort of on your own. While this thing does happen on BE proportionately it happens far more on DC as they have been proven to cut corners on basic maintence and safety.

    Operators such as BE, DB and even some of the other privates such as Aircoach which have high maintence standards and newer vehicles which have first and foremost higher safety standards aswell as a reduced chance of breakdowns.

    Your just using breakdowns which happen on all operators as an excuse to bash BE and defend the indefensible which are DC who are cutting corners.


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    #578
    salonfire
    Registered Users Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭salonfire


    Likewise, I hope people aren't using Dublin Coach to bash private operators in Transport.


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    #579
    Stephen15
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    salonfire wrote: »
    Likewise, I hope people aren't using Dublin Coach to bash private operators in Transport.

    No one is using DC to bash privates there are plenty of perfectly good privates such as Aircoach, GoBus, Citylink and Swords Express which operate new, safe and well maintained vehicles. DC do not.


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    #580
    Stephen15
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    Quackster wrote: »
    From my observations, the primary safety concern of bus transport in this country is not any particular operator's shortcomings, it's the vast majority of passengers who seem to be so intellectually challenged that they're completely oblivious to the need to put on their seatbelts.

    So this is acceptable excuse for DC to run vehicles which are a fire risk.


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    #581
    aaakev
    Registered Users Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭aaakev


    I just passed one on the N7 near portlaoise and said to my mate its unusual to see them moving. We didnt get 2 miles before we passed another one broken down! Haha

    Edit. Juat passed another broken down on the way back to naas... m7 / m9 interchange


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    #582
    JeffK88
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭JeffK88


    On the 1830 to portlaoise broken down on the Red Cow Junction in the Middle lane.


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    #583
    Tickityboo
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭Tickityboo


    JeffK88 wrote: »
    On the 1830 to portlaoise broken down on the Red Cow Junction in the Middle lane.

    Passed by that at 22.30 getting hitched up to a tow truck.


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    Stephen15
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    Tickityboo wrote: »
    Passed by that at 22.30 getting hitched up to a tow truck.

    I'm sure HGV recovery services are making a fortune out of them


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    #585
    JeffK88
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    Tickityboo wrote: »
    Passed by that at 22.30 getting hitched up to a tow truck.

    Driver managed to limp it to where it finally died a horrible grinding metal death. Sounded like the gearbox exploded. Hopefully that particular bus is put out of its misery along with its sister 04's.


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    #586
    WishUWereHere
    Registered Users Posts: 2,304 ✭✭✭WishUWereHere


    Drove past their depot in Knockmitten on Friday and the place looked like a scrap yard.

    Bus out on the road with the whole front gone from underneath the windscreen.


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    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    #588
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Does Dublin Coach run as per normal on St Patrick's Day?

    🤪



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    #589
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Bus at the airport today missing some glass

    Was in operation with passengers on board

    445368.jpg

    (Maybe someone can embed image for me thanks!)


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    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    #591
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,593 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Prisoner 6753 wrote: »
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    It's a Setra S415 HD and from the colour scheme it looks like an ex Aircoach one dating back from 2004.


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    #592
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    It was indeed an older setra. The fleet number I remember to be : 225.

    I can't recall the registration number.

    (Thank you to the person who fixed my image. Posting from mobile!)


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    #593
    punisher5112
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    Reminds me of when a coach hit my vehicle and took out all the side windows...
    It only broke the mirror glass on my yoke.


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    #594
    PeterParker957
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    Travelled with Dublin Coach home to Dublin Airport (6.30am) and back (8.30pm).

    Pray tell how are they a "luxury" coach ????

    No toilets operational for a two hour journey, no heat (even in this weather!!) and generally scruffy.


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    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    #596
    PeterParker957
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    Prisoner 6753 wrote: »
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    Both I and the coach, yep!


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    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    #598
    punisher5112
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    Were a great machine in their day but that day has well past.


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    #599
    PeterParker957
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    Prisoner 6753 wrote: »
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    Was a double decker bus if that helps ?


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    #600
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    PeterParker957 wrote: »
    Was a double decker bus if that helps ?

    Ah one of the ex stagecoach....

    They're in bits also.

    Very hard life in the uk


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    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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