Wednesday 10 Jan2007.
Got 1734 DART Pearse to Malahide to get Dundalk train.
Inside one display said "as serbhis" other was blank.
No announcements for stations.
I was haging around on the platform in Malahide.
Driver comes down to go back to Bray. As he's about to leave,
old lady flags him down to ask him if he knows there is a lad
passed out on one of the carriages.
He picks up in cab telephone, starts shouting hello several times into it, hangs up.
leaves the cab, walks slowly down the platform, away from the train, to the bridge where there must be another telephone.
comes back.
goes into the cab again gets his hi-vis jacket
coems out walks down the train, sees said passed out lad.
goes into carriage. I hear some shouts. after a while driver comes back and gets into cab and dart moves off. as it passes I see the passed out lad on a seat but doubled over
a few minutes later the delayed dundalk train pulls in, fairly full and aircon not working.
In all this time I heard no announcement re- delay. Maybe the dart driver made an announcement after he left Malahide, but I'm sure the dundalk train passengers had no announcement
Oh yeah the dart was originally to depart at 18:16 the driver only closed the doors at 18:20 before the incident started.
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