[5/11/2012] No service Dun Laoghaire Bray

[Mark Gleeson]

Major incident at Dun Laoghaire involving the 19:30 Greystones Malahide DART service.

Services have now resumed Dun Laoghaire Howth/Malahide using platform 3 at Dun Laoghaire exit by rear entrance only

No service Dun Laoghaire Bray until further notice. Dublin Bus will accept tickets

Bus options
45a/59 from Dun Laoghaire (note no Cherrywood/Loughlinstown 7 service to Dun Laoghaire currently due diversion)
7/84 from Blackrock
145 from City Centre

[Mark Gleeson]

Back running now no delays to report

[Mark Gleeson]

Further details, the train struck a person about a third of the way up the platform.

There was a full call out of emergency services

As the rear of the train was not in the platform it was evacuated using the emergency ladders and passengers escorted out of the station

[Mark Gleeson]

News this morning is the person struck by the train was brought to hospital with serious injuries last night

[ThomasJ]

:eek: ouch! Poor woman!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/woman-loses-hands-after-being-trapped-under-dart-train-3285189.html

Woman loses hands after being trapped under DART train

The woman, believed to be in her early 20s, was hit by the north-bound Greystones to Malahide train as it came into the station.

Tuesday November 06 2012
PARAMEDICS had to work for nearly 40 minutes to free a woman who lost both hands after she was hit and then became trapped under a DART train.

People standing on the platform at Dun Laoghaire station in south Co Dublin fainted at the horror of the tragedy unfolding in front of them.

The woman, believed to be in her early 20s, was hit by the north-bound Greystones to Malahide train as it came into the station.

Gardai are trying to establish the circumstances leading up to the incident. It is understood the woman was on the tracks as the train arrived at the station and was hit.

She ended up trapped beneath the train.

The incident happened shortly before 8pm last night.

Rescue crews spent nearly 40 minutes treating the critically injured woman and trying to free her from under the train. But she is understood to have lost both hands.

She was said to have been alive leaving the scene in an ambulance. A garda escort travelled ahead of the ambulance as it rushed to St Vincent's Hospital.

DART services between Lansdowne Road and Bray were suspended while the emergency was being dealt with.

[Jamie2k9]

Why does this keep happening. How stupid are people when it comes to being to clsoe to edge of platform or on the tracks. What do they expect if you in the way of the train you will be hit. Its no very fair on the train driver either. :mad:

[Colm Moore]

Why does this keep happening. How stupid are people when it comes to being to clsoe to edge of platform or on the tracks. What do they expect if you in the way of the train you will be hit. Its no very fair on the train driver either. :mad:We don't know the details - I think more sympathy is needed than anger.

[Mark Gleeson]

Sadly there have been incidents where through no fault of any party someone has fell in front of a train. Gust of wind at Howth Junction about 10 years ago comes to mind.

We state only the factual position that someone was struck by a train, the judgement as to why is the gardai or coroner decision as appropriate. I've had the experience of speaking to a driver a few hours after an incident and its not something I would wish on anyone.

Given I was 100m away from the Dun Laoghaire station when the incident occurred I sadly know more than I would like to know, I was supposed to be on the 20:03 train to Bray.

[Jamie2k9]

We don't know the details - I think more sympathy is needed than anger.

I have sympathy for the women but the majority of rail accidents could be provented if people obayed signs and rules set by IE.

[comcor]

While I know there are far more pressing investment cases, roughly how much per station do the kind of doors you get on the Jubilee line extension in London or Metro line 14 in Paris cost?

Do they have to be fitted as the station is built and is special equipment require on the trains? Do they only make sense in tunnels?

Between, less lost downtime, a reduction in people hit by trains and less driver trauma, they seem like a cost worth considering.

[Inniskeen]

Whatever the background or circumstances, one can only have the deepest sympathy for the woman involved and the inevitably traumatised DART driver.

[dowlingm]

While I know there are far more pressing investment cases, roughly how much per station do the kind of doors you get on the Jubilee line extension in London or Metro line 14 in Paris cost?

Do they have to be fitted as the station is built and is special equipment require on the trains? Do they only make sense in tunnels?

Between, less lost downtime, a reduction in people hit by trains and less driver trauma, they seem like a cost worth considering.comcor - platform edge doors *usually* are installed in conjunction with automatic train operation. It takes skilled manual operation to line up the doors that accurately and not take all day about it. In tunnels it makes even more sense especially where third rail is used because of the potential for smoke/fire because there's less rubbish. It also allows for smoother passenger flow because you know where to line up. Pricey though.

[longword]

comcor - platform edge doors *usually* are installed in conjunction with automatic train operation. It takes skilled manual operation to line up the doors that accurately and not take all day about it.

Plus all the trains serving the platform need doors in the same place. Is that even the case in the DART fleet let alone the 29k and 22k trains?