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Thursday 2-2-2006
18:45 Heuston Newbridge
And we got well blank, no PIS no auto announcements. Its a really bad show from IE, there was a manual PA and it was a bit hard to hear But to the credit of the driver or ticket checker we where told that the train was to pull into the main Cork platform instead of the turnback, no idea why but I've never seen a train empty so fast ever We where told we where late while waiting due to classic late arrival they could have told us why since they clearly And yes I saw the CDE set today and the displays read Cork |
Customer Information Displays on Platforms
I've heard that for the Customer Information Displays on the platforms to work on they must be connected to the Main Signalling Control Computer in Connolly. Currently Greystones, Drogheda, Dundalk and the Maynooth Line are not connected to this main signalling computer in Connolly CTC and are instead controlled locally.
I've also heard that due to manning levels and technical issues in CTC Connolly, the displays at these locations will probably not be connected to the main computer and thence the Info Displays until the Suburban re-signalling is completed (DASH Phase 2). So it will be at least a couple of more years before these displays will work properly. |
Monday 6-2-2006
17:15 Bray Malahide
Rear coach not displaying destination (8319) 17:25 Bray Howth Not a information issue per say but the vandals had smashed a window on the 5th coach (8137 me thinks) All cordoned off and train remained in service 17:25 Howth Bray PIS system working maps and internal display) but unable to make Next Station X pa. Side displays also not working (8638) |
Tuesday 7-2-2006
7:57 Maynooth Bray
Showing Drogheda as destination No PIS inside or outside 29x27 + 29x11 |
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I've attached the picture from this morning's (07 Feb 2006) 0645 Kildare to Heuston. Due to the limitations of my camera phone and the size restrictions, you may not believe it but it is Kildare!!!!
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30th January,2006
Gorey - Maynooth 15.15 ex Greystones. 2801/02/09/10/11/12 - No internal PIS working. Good train crew announcements. Greystones station boards not working. |
Wednesday 8-2-2006
8:05 Greystones Howth
No displays working in coaches 8204, 8601 and 8501 Train insisted on having CCTV fitted when none is The PA kept saying the train ran non stop from Connolly to Howth Junction when it doesn't 17:50 Pearse Drogheda External PIS switched on then dies about 2 seconds later 29x12/13 17:25 Howth Bray While the internal displays and maps where working fine the destination station announcement was made twice and the next staiton PA sometime happened sometimes not. Of course the classic next station <blank> for Sydney Parade 8635/36/24/23 17:40 Bray Malahide Showing Bray on rear as destination 19:04 Bray Howth No destination shown rear coach 8404 19:09 Bray Malahide Oh dear this train got very confused and announced Glasthule and Sandycove for Blackrock Dun Loaghaire for Booterstown etc 18:55 Malahide Bray 19:16 Malahide Bray Both trains where showing Malahide as the destination on the rear coach 22:30 Pearse Maynooth External information panels switched on for about 2 seconds and died yet again 29x15 21:59 Bray Howth No destination shown on rear coach |
Date doesn't matter
18:45 Hesuton Newbridge
No destination or side information panels no on train display and no auto announcements Hang on All 29000 operated services from December 12th between Kildare and Heuston (bar one) have not shown the correct destinationor any destination at all. No side information panels no on train display and no auto announcements have every occured muppets, I even told the manager in charge this was going to happen but do IE care ? |
Friday 10-2-2006
17:15 Bray Malahide
Rear 4 coaches hadn't go side displays working 17:25 Howth Bray Showing Howth as destination PIS system on the blink, destination Bray working but next station pa not made. External displays not working either 8638/37/15/16 17:40 Bray Malahide PIS and maps stuck displaying Shankill 17:50 Pearse Dundalk No side or rear destination displays |
Saturday 11-2-2006
14:16 Howth Greystones
Showing Howth as destination on rear 16:25 Howth Bray Unit 8638/37 not announcing the next station but no problem announcing This train is for Greystones 16:15 Bray Malahide Showing Bray as destination on rear (8606) |
Monday 13-2-2006
17:50 Pearse Dundalk
External PIS system switched on then died about 2 seconds later Units 29x05/08 17:15 Bray Malahide Showing Bray as destination on rear coach (8606) 17:25 Howth Bray PIS system fails to announce next station, but has no trouble with stating, this train is for Bray 19:05 Howth Greystones Showing Howth as destination on rear coach 21:48 Bray Malahide Showing Bray as destination on rear coach (8332) 22:22 Pearse Dundalk External information panels switched on for about 2 seconds and died yet again 29x09+28 22:30 Pearse Maynooth External information panels did not switch on |
Tuesday 14-2-2006
14:12 Goery Maynooth
No PIS working Showing Rosslare as destaintion on front and no destination on rear 15:10 Howth Bray Side panels on rear 4 coaches not working 15:16 Howth Bray Showing Howth as destination on rear coach 17:25 Howth Bray PIS system fails to announce next station, but has no trouble with stating, this train is for Bray, coach 8638 again |
Wednesday 15-2-2006
11:35 Connolly Gorey
Showing "Arklow" as destination front and rear 11:02 Howth Bray Showing Howth as destination on rear coach (8612) 17:25 Howth Bray PIS system displays not working in lead coach 8626 The usual Next Station <silence> for Sydney Parade |
The full PIS was operating on the 0645 Kildare-Heuston this morning, didn't even get mixed up! (29107-29407)
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Its taken 3 and a half months to just a get a test train in service
This issue was brought to the attention of the manager in charge in October, the fact that the PIS system was flakey and would almost certainly not work This was followed a by a letter in December and now in February we are told there is a trial version of updated software on test. I cannot understand why IE didn't bother to record the audio clips for every single station in one go, its just a case of loading the train computer with the timetable, it should work for every route from day one without question, its a small network Unacceptable, in fact this would be illegal in the UK..... But it does show that armed with details we can get a result of sort |
Thursday 16-2-2006
17:25 Howth Bray
PIS system not announcing the next station External displays not working |
Friday 17-2-2006
17:25 Bray Malahide
Showing Bray as the destination on the rear coach (8626) |
Saturday 18-2-2006
10:15 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach 10:38 Malahide Greystones No external PIS working (8637/38) 10:30 Bray Howth Showing Bray as destination on rear coach 10:45 Howth Bray Showing Howth as destination on rear coach (8615) 19:42 Bray Howth Showing Bray as destination on rear coach 19:25 Howth Bray PIS system not announcing the next station External displays not working |
sun 19th feb
~1300 connolly to bray (terminated there)
PIS got stuck at glenageary - electronic sign said every station from then on was glenageary... announcments became "the next station is _____" quite funny - even the kids on the train worked out that dalkey is not glenageary - maybe they should run it 17:50 greystones - howth? no announcements and the LED map display stayed fully lit |
18:15 (approx) Tara St. southbound DART to Bray yesterday (3-3-06)
Display showing: "This is a southbound train to Out of service" the whole way. Well, credit where credit is due, at least they got the direction right :D |
Thursday 2-3-2006
Last night was great fun.
After 30 minute wait a train to Greystones showed up, after 25 minutes of "1 Bray Delay" on the display board in Pearse On board the maps showed a northbound train to Howth about to leave Clontarf Rd. It was next station Killester, destination Howth but the PA called the right stations on the way to Greystones apart of course from Sydney Parade Throughout all the choas yestered I saw not one train showing a correct northbound destination, yes the roller blind has Harmonstown and Kilester on it but not one single train I saw was set correctly though I have seen it in the past |
Not sure if this is the right section of the forum, but i was on the 07.15 service from Port to Heuston this morning with my wife. It was ridiculously cold even taking into account the weather. Its not the first time this has happened. I'm sick of it. I pay enough bloody money for a sh!te service, without having to bring a flippin hot water bottle with me to work. Surely that breaks health regulations?
Does anybody know who I should venting my spleen at? I have submitted polite observations online before with no response. Anybody, please, help? |
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IE will not respond to any complaint unless it is made in writing Two Not much point in writting as IE don't write back, we know this. IE will claim they do but experience says otherwise and we can produce a heap of people. Port Laois is classified as intercity so its Customer Services Intercity, Iarnrod Eireann, Connolly Station, Dublin 1, If that fails Mr Steve Murphy, Manager South and West, Iarnrod Eireann, Heuston Station, Dublin 8 Read this, refunds can be had http://www.platform11.org/passenger_...hp#their_fault The key here is specifics be clear that it was the 7:15 Port Laois Heuston on 3-3-2006. The heating in coach xxxx was broke. IE are notorious for avoiding the truth and side-stepping the issue. Sadly they tend not to write back when they have to put there hands up The letter will always be accompained by a useless self publicising last paragraph claiming how great IE are investing in the network, no shortage of cash its a shortage of will in IE to actually make changes for the better This morning was the coldest on record in 10 years and I'm told the air-conditioning systems on certain coaches can't hack it below -5C, if they where better looked after they would Health regulations is an interesting point but heating is not a critical element of the system Over the last few months Platform 11 has embarked on a process of assisting the setup of local rail users groups such as Kildare and Newbridge. Further groups on the Kildare line at the Dublin end are also about to emerge as well. Port Laois is the missing element currently Iarnrod Eireann have gone all strange making extreme attempts to be friendly as they fear a backlash if the groups get well organised. Needless to say all involved saw this for what it was ass coverage. Orgainisation is the key to getting a result http://www.platform11.org/local_groups/ |
Thanks MArk,
I'll take your comment on board. |
Guess which platform???????????
Sat eving, Connolly station, around 1815-20. The train to Drougheda is diue into platform 7, acording to the dot matrix'y thingy. Everyone standing there... announcement on the pa "Next train arriving is the (whatever time) to Drougheda, now arriving on platform 6" everyone moves over to six.
The train pulls into seven. Everyone rushes back. Good stuff!! :D |
this is interesting...
nothing since Saturday??? Things must be improving!! |
not been doing much traveling
Well Tuesday 7th 8:50 Howth Bray Next Station <silence> for Sydney Parade, Salthill, Dun Loaghaire and Glasthule Destination blinds on the DART fleet have been more or less fixed |
An off thing I've noticed on some Northern line trains. When travelling southbound between Gormanston and Balbriggan, a lonely "6" scrolls across the display, followed by a few foreign language characters. This only seems to happen on some trains that stop in Gormanston.
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Sunday 12th March, 13:20 Bray-Howth
Alstrom DART car. Internal display showed correct destination and stops, but automatic announcements said "this train is for (silence), the next station is (silence)". |
08:19 Castleknock to Pearse
No automatic display
No automatic announcement |
13-3-2006
7:57 Maynooth Bray
8 car 2900 No internal or external displays working] 17:15 Howth Bray (normally Greystones) Showing Howth as destination on rear 17:25 Howth Bray 8634/33/22/21 Usual next station blank for Sydney Parade otherwise working |
14-3-2006
17:25 Howth Bray
8634/33/xx/xx Usual next station blank for Sydney Parade otherwise working Can't be sure but I'm almost certain it was showing Howth as destination |
14 Mar 2006
17:50 Pearse - Dundalk
Had "?" scrolling across the internal display between Pearse and Tara St. Otherwise everything worked apart from an odd absence of spaces between words. |
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"?????????????"
LOL!!!! Maybe the computer was trying to tell us something!!! |
15-3-2006
17:25 Howth Bray
8636/35/30/29 Usual next station blank for Sydney Parade otherwise working PA Internal displays in the lead coach where not working but the maps where |
A few LUAS announcements seem to have been re-recorded on Line B / Green:
I really wish they would do something about the quality on the announements in general - the person who records them does not have a clear voice and the irish pronounciations are very dodgy. |
I'm not sure what you find wrong with the announcements on the Luas, the robo-chick announcements to me always seem very clear and unambiguous.
And as for the Gaeilge pronunciations, honestly, who cares? |
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Oh God no Sean, dont say that!!! I've seen fatwahs launched on that issue before!!! |
On St. Patricks day there were announcements for "the next station is Tara st" as we passed throught the closed station and stopped in Pearse....
Imagine the nearest station to the city centre closed on a day that there'd be peoiple trying to get into and out of the city centre...... |
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