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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
When I met a senior Irish Rail manager during the week, he quite openly accepted that there were weaknesses in the communication to passengers and that the information provided could be improved, exactly as Colm has highlighted.
as a few people haved copped u adn colm are talkin in general,
they done a good job when it came to this incidient..
senior manager, not hard to find one of those more managers than staff. and not hard to find one tha be happy to tell ya what ever you wanna hear if it saves grief down the line..
Its rather pointless to tell passengers that the line is expected to reopen shortly, hard fact is what is required not further confusion.
line wil reopen soon, it keeping people upto date with the progress, want them to keep sayin, it closed, its closed, and then its open, all of a sudden.
The DART by design allowed a PA to be made from the control office in Connolly to any selected DART train anywhere on the DART network, but curiously we understand Irish Rail disabled this feature some time ago. It would be illegal to operate a train with only a driver without this feature in the UK, so again serious questions of Irish Rail's safety and management.
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if it was a saftey feature that was required by eu with its safey laws, the rail saftey crowd wount hav let the IE bring the new icr's in to service with out it.??
i think this radio feature your talkin about, that ctc can use the pa on the dart is the new gsm-r radios there getting in the future which are already in use in the uk and parts of europe,were that feature is possible to do on the gsm-r.. dart line only getting gsm-r,no money for the rest..
all the train radios, rail cars locos darts have the very same radio in the cab. so if ur sayin it could be done on a dart, could be done on any train,
ctc signalman or the regulator can contact the driver by train radio by calling it radio code P652, E108 etc or make general calls to all train radios, they can call train radio
make general calls
send emergency stops
send hot axle messages.
there no feature on there phones up in ctc to do such a thing and take over a train pa. im sure in this day of age its easy possible, but i think thats were the gsm-r radio comes in, the radios at the minute are a bit simple to be capaple of such things
the pa system is not worked tru the train radios except the jap darts all the rest use a indivdual pa systhem..