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Originally Posted by James Howard
The driver on the 1705 announced that there were 5 sets stuck in Sligo. Unbelievable messing.
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On any given night there are normally five trains in Sligo - the two sets on the 05:45, and the three sets for the 07:00, 09:00 and 11:00.
Nothing really surprising about that.
There have been similar flooding incidents on the British railway network and trains stranded north of Carlisle and in Holyhead in the last few days and trains either cancelled, curtailed or operating with reduced capacity as a result. I didn't see train operators moving their fleet "just in case".
There are limits to the "what-if" planning that can be done.
By that reckoning Ryanair should have moved their entire Dublin based fleet from Dublin to Shannon on Friday night rather than cancel their entire flight programme out of Dublin airport.