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Originally Posted by HRidge
I was on the train that hit the victim last night, in the first carriage where we felt the full force of the thud that ended someone's life and the drag underneath the carriage.
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HRidge, your account reads like a gripping piece of fiction, which makes it all the more terrible that it's true.
It does sound like IR did a great job under the circumstances at the scene.
Is it possible though that IR could just have the same high quality contingency plans for addressing such incidents beween any 2 stations? Given the account, maybe this isn't the right place to expand too much on it though.
Is there any reason for example, that last night, IR could not have run trains normally, as they did to Dalkey, where there are changover points, and then a shuttle Dart on one line running back and forth between Dalkey, Killiney and Shankill, and then a Dart shuttle between Bray and Greystones, leaving only Shankill to Bray, where the incident was. Shuttle buses could then operate between just these 2 stations, or just have a couple of staff directing people to Shankill town to pick up the 84 / 145 to Bray. I think this might have got more people to their destination more quickly than everyone changing at Dun Laoghaire.