Portlaoise - Portarlington Closed

[Mark Gleeson]

Incident involving 17:30 Portlaoise Heuston, emergency services on scene

17:00 Dublin Cork, stuck at Portarlington
17:05 Dublin Tralee, was stuck at Monastervin but now moving towards Portarlington, believe currently parked in a passing loop outside Portarlington to allow 17:10 Athlone/Westport + 17:30 Galway to overtake to get onto Galway line
17:25 Dublin Limerick is at Kildare, overtaken at Kildare by 17:30 to Galway
17:30 Dublin Galway between Newbridge and Kildare, waiting on several trains in front to move
17:20 Dublin Portlaoise is overtaken by the 17:25+17:30 per timetable so is behind the 17:30
17:35 Dublin Waterford has departed Kildare, 9 minutes late, no further delay expected

[Mark Gleeson]

All Dublin Portlaoise services now operating to/from Kildare only

[Mark Gleeson]

Due to the nature of the incident we are looking at least 1 hour possibly more before the line will be back open

[Jamie2k9]

bus shuttle between Portarlington and Portlaoise for the 17.00 and 17.05 services.

They also seems to be allowing Cork passengers in Heuston transfer tickets to tomorrow.

[Kilocharlie]

IE Twitter very busy tonight with lots of updates and replies to tweets. Some complaints of lack of on-board information though.

[laoisfan]

Originally Posted by Kilocharlie

IE Twitter very busy tonight with lots of updates and replies to tweets. Some complaints of lack of on-board information though.

I was on the 5:05pm Tralee going to Ballybrophy.

The train driver was brilliant, providing us with information as soon as he could provide it. When we were allowed to pull into the platform at Portarlington we immediately boarded waiting buses to Portlaoise. On arrival at Portlaoise we boarded a train which already had the 5:00pm Cork passengers on board already, a bit crowded, people standing, understandable though.

To be fair to Irish Rail they handled it very well. They have no say on opening the line, I believe that is up to the emergency services and/or the police.

Got home at 9:12pm but who cares. I made it home tonight, plenty of other people will too, one person won't though. RIP.