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The Dublin Coach Experience

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    #902
    patrickc
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    abother setra with passengers broken down on the N7 today


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    #903
    dhaughton99
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    patrickc wrote: »
    abother setra with passengers broken down on the N7 today

    I passed the depot at 10:30 tonight and there were none of the usual buses outside on the road apart from a small Kildare village one and two of the broken setras. The place is usually piled high outside every other night I pass. Unless they are all broke down on a motorway somewhere.


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    #904
    WishUWereHere
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    dhaughton99 wrote: »
    I passed the depot at 10:30 tonight and there were none of the usual buses outside on the road apart from a small Kildare village one and two of the broken setras. The place is usually piled high outside every other night I pass. Unless they are all broke down on a motorway somewhere.

    Or maybe the Litter Warden has knocked on their door, and told them to clean up their act?


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    #905
    finnharpsboy
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    From Facebook this afternoon


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    #906
    Dravokivich
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    Wouldn't be too sure of how recent that is. Was down that way within the last 2 hours and didn't notice anything left over from that.

    Still a few gutted buses hanging around too.


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    #907
    finnharpsboy
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Wouldn't be too sure of how recent that is. Was down that way within the last 2 hours and didn't notice anything left over from that.

    Still a few gutted buses hanging around too.

    Just passed it now.... one coach (09 KE) completely gutted, another with the rear third of it burnt out.
    Photographers and Garda there.


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    #908
    finnharpsboy
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    Dublin fire brigade on Twitter
    http://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/1056244184087179265


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    #909
    punisher5112
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    Wonder was it arson.


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    #910
    Odyssey 2005
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Wonder was it arson.

    Hmmm !;)


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    #911
    Odyssey 2005
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    finnharpsboy wrote: »
    From Facebook this afternoon

    Same ball of shîťê that clogged up Doolin a few weeks ago. What a crock.


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    #912
    Dravokivich
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    finnharpsboy wrote: »
    Just passed it now.... one coach (09 KE) completely gutted, another with the rear third of it burnt out.
    Photographers and Garda there.

    Must have been after I passed through so.


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    #913
    punisher5112
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    Them double deck vanhools must be ragged???

    I always thought they were a smashing coach.


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    #914
    Stephen15
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Wonder was it arson.

    Even if it was it would still go back to DC's incompetence as an operator for parking buses overnight on a public road. They should really be off the road. I don't how their insured.


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    #915
    punisher5112
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    Dublin bus is selling their VT 1-20 wonder will Dublin coach buy them???


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    #916
    Stephen15
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Dublin bus is selling their VT 1-20 wonder will Dublin coach buy them???

    Nearly wouldn't surprise me if they fitted them with seat belts and used them for coach work. Absolute joke of an operator by the sounds of things.


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    #917
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Even if it was it would still go back to DC's incompetence as an operator for parking buses overnight on a public road. They should really be off the road. I don't how their insured.

    What makes it more odd than usual is it happened at their depot, or a few yards from it.


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    #918
    tabbey
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Dublin bus is selling their VT 1-20 wonder will Dublin coach buy them???

    Are these the first VTs registered late 2005?


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    #919
    punisher5112
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    tabbey wrote: »
    Are these the first VTs registered late 2005?

    Yes. Yp for sale already, December pulled from service, it's a shame as they are such a good bus.


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    #920
    tabbey
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Yes. Yp for sale already, December pulled from service, it's a shame as they are such a good bus.

    Yes they are a great bus, they feel much more solid than many newer designs.

    They also carry lots of people who would be left behind by other vehicles.


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    #921
    Stephen15
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Yes. Yp for sale already, December pulled from service, it's a shame as they are such a good bus.

    Up on the market in the UK I believe


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    #922
    TallGlass
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    Looks like fire started in back of one of the buses and spread to the bus behind.


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    #923
    belfast stephen
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    i hear that DC have there Belfast Route out to Tender or someone to take it of the hands are they are not making any money on it bar Friday and Sunday


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    #924
    belfast stephen
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    i hear that DC have there Belfast Route out to Tender or someone to take it of the hands are they are not making any money on it bar Friday and Sunday


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    #925
    Stephen15
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    Roberto Square Hangman wrote: »
    What makes it more odd than usual is it happened at their depot, or a few yards from it.

    I assume that's because their depot is too small for their fleet which is a bit thick of them for not having a depot large enough.


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    #926
    devnull
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    Very shortly they will be starting a new route between Dublin airport and Clongriffin with the number 727.

    It's typical Dublin Coach. Continued expansion rather than dealing with long suffering passengers on existing routes.

    Bar the Belfast and to a lesser extent the Limerick route. All other services are starved of any kind of investment.


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    #927
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I assume that's because their depot is too small for their fleet which is a bit thick of them for not having a depot large enough.

    I’ll rephrase.

    It was strange it happened in knockmitten, arson is a high probability.


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    #928
    Stephen15
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    devnull wrote: »
    Very shortly they will be starting a new route between Dublin airport and Clongriffin with the number 727.

    It's typical Dublin Coach. Continued expansion rather than dealing with long suffering passengers on existing routes.

    Bar the Belfast and to a lesser extent the Limerick route. All other services are starved of any kind of investment.

    Sounds like a bit of a reincarnation of the old AerDart but from Clongriffin rather than Howth Junction. Surprised they'd bother since the AerDart was relatively short lived.


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    #929
    Truckermal
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    A bus driver sacked for sharing 'shock' pictures of a faulty wheel has won an unfair dismissal claim http://jrnl.ie/4306184

    I wonder was he driving for them?


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    #930
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
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    Truckermal wrote: »
    A bus driver sacked for sharing 'shock' pictures of a faulty wheel has won an unfair dismissal claim http://jrnl.ie/4306184

    I wonder was he driving for them?
    Still though, €990 isn't a massive amount of money, he was just lucky he found someone else to take him on.

    As for getting the money itself, he'll more than likely have to go to court to get an enforcement order and then get the local sheriff to execute the said order.

    I took an unfair dismissal cases myself in recent years.

    From initiating the action to receiving payment, it was monthly payments over a very long time, took about 4 years and involved the process i described above.


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    #931
    Stephen15
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    Rumour going around another one has caught fire tonight.


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