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Unread 28-02-2006, 16:35   #45
Mark Gleeson
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From our information the 9:30 to Waterford is/should be a MK3 push pull set built in 1988. It could be one of the 1972 built coaches as well but still at 9:30 there is spare stock knocking around that could have been used. It sounds like you got stuck with the 1972 built coaches. They tend to suffer from werid power failures at times. IE were refused funding to refurbish them in the late 1990's and as a result they have been left to rot (quite literally), once a coach gets badly broken its dumped

Currently the entire intercity fleet is required just to sustain daily services which is due to a screw up in IE, as the new Dublin Cork intercity trains are over 6 months late entering service, orignally there was mean't to be an hourly service from December then it became first train set of 8 in service in December (which became January, then February and its going to be March now, fingers crossed for Monday next)

You are entitled to a 50% refund as a result of the delay

http://www.platform11.org/passenger_...hp#their_fault

Alternatively pick up the form at customer services at Heuston

There where major delays on the 3rd of February due to a death on the line at Cherry Orchard other than that we have no further information we are relying on people to report in issues as Iarnrod Eireann (unlike Northern Ireland Railways) do not publish any details on service disruption on their website which is shamefull. Iarnrod Eireann management are not forth coming unless you can more or less provide all the details

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