Maynooth and Longford
 

When I left Lansdowne at 18.15 approx. from the southbound platform, it was showing the next 2 northbound services as these 2 suburban services, plus a Malahide service. Cannot remember if it had times, or just the word Delay.
I remember this, because at this point the next service should be the Drogheda service which 'vanished'. I was wondering if my train would magically re-appear :)

I wonder what time did the failed DART actually get moved at, if it failed at 17.10 approx.? Those poor passengers if they were still stuck there during all this. I wonder did they have to make their way down the tracks, or was the failed DART moved to a nearby platform....

This all makes me really glad I wasn't feeling well and decided to leave work early and get the 16:43 from Pearse to Drogheda. Something was fouled up even at that early stage, as we were stuck for about ten minutes around Connolly. Fortunately once we made itout of the Connolly area the driver was able to put the foot down and make up a bit of time.

Reality was a stoning at Broombridge (1 arrest) at 18:52 and subsequently a pedestrian on the tracks.

Really :eek: ?

Yes did notice a kid throwing a stone at the train I got from Docklands round that time, probably the same kid who got arrested

Just to remind folks

Anyone who was delayed by more than an hour, even if you missed a connection owing to the delay can apply for a refund


http://www.platform11.org/passenger_...hp#their_fault

Weekly/Monthly/Annual tickets get fraction of the face value back, annual ticket holders will be issued with a docket which is exchangable for cash

There was a commuter in Blackrock when I went down around 17:50, which I think was the Maynooth one. I went back to work, a colleague went down around 18.30 and phoned to say a commuter was just pulling out. Had the impression it was the same one.

Yes.
after 7pm I heard an announcement in Tara that the next train to platform 1 was the 17:37 to Maynooth/Longford

This was when I went into the booking office to get my refund form. They had none and told me to get one in Pearse.

This is the second day in a row the 18:15 to Drogheda failed in Pearse, Mark.

Seems like IE won't admit to the 18:15 failure as well

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I was on the 1725 Connolly-Gorey - it left on time, and ran on time all the way to greystones - woohoo!

sorry, don't mean to gloat, I've been affected by these f**k-ups in the past, I was just amazed not to be delayed at all yesterday.

so, "a maintenance crew was at the failed train within 40 minutes" - assuming they came from Fairview or Connolly that's not that quick. Do they travel by road or rail?

From Fairview by van. Normally if a DART sits down the driver does a check and can isolate or bypass the defect and continue so the repair crew probably made it out in under 30 minutes after word came through that the fault was serious

I had the misfortune to be on a DART to fail at the exact same location about 2 years ago, took a while but a DART behind us was commandeered and pushed us to Sydney Parade

If the failure had been in Sydney Parade or Booterstown the delays would have been much much less

I must have been the luckiest bugger yesterday. I arrived in Blackrock station at 18:05 to get the 18:10 Northbound Dart. There was a commuter train waiting on the Northbound platform (not sure if this was the Drogheda or Maynooth service). As I was walking down the road there was a platform announcement that the next Northbound Dart would arrive at the Southbound Platform. The train departed with me on it packed to the rafters and passed a Northbound Dart waiting just before Booterstown (not actually in the station). The gates were permanently down with a Garda Jeep parked across them and Gardai directing traffic. The broken down Dart was the far side of the Merrion Gates (about 400-500 metres passed the gates on the Northbound side). There was an IE guy in one of the centre driver cabs and 2 IE guys waking along the tracks from the gates. The middle 2 (or maybe 4) carriages had no power. The offending train was either a Tokyu or Alstom. Loads of browned off passengers on board.

As we got into Sydney Parade (still going Northbound on the Southbound side) the offending train pulled in on the Northbound platform. We took off so didn't see after that. We changed onto the Northbound side past Landsdowne and pulled in to the Northbound platform at Grand Canel Dock. There was a wait outside Pearse until we were passed by a South bound Dart. We crossed back to the Southbound side and pulled into the Southbound platform at Pearse. There was a commuter train sitting on the Northbound platform (marked Drogheda if I remember correctly). No idea why this was just sitting here. We left and crossed back over to the Northbound site where we remained for the rest of the trip. I got off at Harmonstown only 20 mins later than I normally one. Bit jammy I think.

Hope this confirms what you are saying.

So the failed train was the 16:39 Bray Malahide, the 17:02 Dun Laoaghire Howth was stuck behind it and the 16:50 Bray Maynooth was still in Blackrock

Get the feeling the failed train was the 8 coach half Mitsui half Alstom, they might make up only 7% of the fleet but nearly all failures in recent times have been attributable to a fault on a Alstom coach