[30-5-2006] Northern Line Disrupted at Skerries

[Mark Gleeson]

AA roadwatch report

30/5/2006 Irish Rail disruption.
Due to an incident on the rail line at Skerries there is disruption to Northern Commuter and Belfast Enterprise Services.

NIR report a bridge strike south of the border has delayed enterprise services but that is timed as 11:52am

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Northern line services suspended by Press Office

All northern commuter trains suspended due to incident at Skerries

Once again AA roadwatch beat them

[Mark Gleeson]

Back running now

[Rashers]

Any details on what happened? The nearest bridge is most unusual, in that 2 cars can only fit through at a squeeze. There is a very large land bank over the underbridge before you hit the railway line, hence it would an unusual event to close the line there...just curious..:confused:

[Mark Gleeson]

Incident normally means train Vs person, bridge strike a separate issue

[Graham]

Got caught up in it today on the 9.50 service from Dundalk.

We stopped at Malahide at 10.50 (not a scheduled stop), and were quickly, though mumbily and barely audibly told that there was a bridge strike, and there'd be a delay. The women beside me (one of which was made late for her job interview :eek:) thought he said there was a strike on.

Got going again at 11.12 or so, bringing the pleasant 2900 journey neatly over the hour and a half mark...

[Bluetonic]

These were two seperate incidents, one a bridge strike somewhere on the line around 11am which was nothing to do with the Skerries incident at around 12.30pm

A young woman was fatally struck by a northbound passing enterprise around Skerries station - may have been on the platform seconds before.