[article] Someone was screaming to get out' - Over 100 passengers evacuated from Iris

[Mark Gleeson]

Over 100 passengers were evacuated from an Irish Rail train after one of its engine went on fire this morning.

The 9.40am Drogheda to Pearse four-carraige service was forced to stop at Clongriffin as a result.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/someone-was-screaming-to-get-out-over-100-passengers-evacuated-from-irish-rail-train-after-engine-bursts-into-flames-34779039.html

The external fire suppression handle was not pulled from the photos from the scene.

[ThomasJ]

I had to laugh at the headline on breakingnews.ie

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/commuters-evacuated-from-dart-train-after-engine-catches-fire-738809.html

Dart train?!

[Mark Gleeson]

Hopefully this is not the old design flaw with the cracked exhaust setting fire to oil on top of the engine

We received assurances year ago that a design change was made to prevent this

[TheDarkSide]

Fire suppression works automatically under a predetermined speed.

[Mark Gleeson]

You are supposed to pull the handle regardless as its pretty much impossible to know if the system actually triggered correctly once the train has stopped .

It doesn't always trigger and its assuming the equipment was actually working

[Mark Gleeson]

And so it begins

Irish Rail is claiming the automatic system extinguished the fire. But we have video of the driver trying to put the fire out

Photos from the scene show the flames under the train after the train has stopped and passengers have got off which indicates the automatic system either did not activate or wasn't up to the job to extinguish the fire

[Jamie2k9]

Hopefully this is not the old design flaw with the cracked exhaust setting fire to oil on top of the engine

We received assurances year ago that a design change was made to prevent this

If it was oil then I think a lot more black smoke would of been produced.

The list of CAF failures for Irish Rail trains continues to grow. I really hope they receive no future orders.

[Dublin13]

Barry Kenny was very quick out the blocks saying that the driver reacted excellently this morning.

[berneyarms]

If it was oil then I think a lot more black smoke would of been produced.

The list of CAF failures for Irish Rail trains continues to grow. I really hope they receive no future orders.

Let's not go down the tabloid reactionary route here.

By and large the 29k fleet have been exceptionally reliable.

[Inniskeen]

The CAFs, as in the various railcars, 2900s, C3K. C4Ks have proven to be a very satisfactory purchase from an operating point of view.

The 29ks are fabulous people movers and very sprightly in operation but offer very little in the line of passenger amenity. Reliability in my experience is very good and serious failures/incidents rare.

[Jamie2k9]

Just to be clear I was only referring to the possible design flaw in regards to CAF comment not the incident yesterday. What happened yeaterday can happy from time to time.

As for reliability, yes very good but expect its down to IE service cycle more than anything. Dont they get checked really often? Also believe they will be fitted with a similar fault system that has been put into the 22000 which can only be good for reliability.