Luas Green Line derailment

enterprise

No Green Line Luas services until further notice.

There are currently no services operating on the Green LUAS Line from Sandyford to St. Stephens Green until further notice due to a derailment. All LUAS tickets are valid on Dublin Bus services.

No further information available to hand.

ENTERPRISE

enterprise

Derailment in Sandyford depot blocking the entrance / exit from the depot.

enterprise

Services have now resumed along the route.

Victor

enterprise wrote:

Derailment in Sandyford depot blocking the entrance / exit from the depot.

They should really have double tracked that. :rolleyes:

aliveandkicking

More stupidity from the RPA. Just reading on the P11 boards that the RPA built the Sandyford depot with just a single track running into it so if anything goes wrong on that section of track (as did this morning) the whole line has to be shut down. How can anyone trust these incompetent fools to design and build the metro?

The thing is something similar happened in Fairview Dart depot recently but as IE built Fairview depot with 2 connections a decent service was still provided.

Common sense and logic seem to be alien concepts to the RPA.

Alun

Maybe, just possibly, there were good sound practical engineering reasons why they couldn't do that? It doesn't have to be incompetence every time.

MarkoP11

The main issue with Sandyford is that it is impossible to depart a tram from the arrival platform, all trams must use the single track section leading to the depot to gain access to the departure platform

I can see no engineering reason why a crossover was not provided

In the context of a later extension to Cherrywood the layout makes some sense but that means 3 or more years where there is a critical weak point in the system. This is the second recorded incident at this spot, the last time happened during the day so the bulk of the fleet was out in service and service could be maintained. Trams terminated in Ballaly on that occassion

Victor

Alun wrote:

Maybe, just possibly, there were good sound practical engineering reasons why they couldn't do that? It doesn't have to be incompetence every time.

Are you suggesting it was maliciousness?

The only reasoning I can think is it mean fewer points (and fewer point to break) and that little bit more siding. But by that logic if they had no trams, then no trams could break down.

BrianD

It must have been one of the first trams to depart the depot that derailed? Any idea when it happened?