Autumn leaves and wheelslip

karlr42 · 05-10-2011, 10:39

Plenty of trouble on the 22:12 Pearse Maynooth last night. We were following another train to Glasnevin so crawled along there, then we had significant trouble leaving Ashtown. There were massive problems between Castleknock and Coolmine, we never once managed to get going properly , any time we built up some revs the wheels slipped and we lost it. To top it all off, there was an emergency brake application between Coolmine and Porterstown, due to what sounded like a problem with the vigilance device(some frantic pedal stomping was heard). The train was about 10 minutes late into Clonsilla and seemed to have trouble leaving there too.

Interestingly enough, the particular train involved, 29010, for some reason has had the integral retarder (engine-assisted brake) reactivated after it was disabled a few years back on the 29s. It's been this way for a couple of weeks.

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05-10-2011, 10:39	#28
karlr42 Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Clonsilla Posts: 340	Plenty of trouble on the 22:12 Pearse Maynooth last night. We were following another train to Glasnevin so crawled along there, then we had significant trouble leaving Ashtown. There were massive problems between Castleknock and Coolmine, we never once managed to get going properly , any time we built up some revs the wheels slipped and we lost it. To top it all off, there was an emergency brake application between Coolmine and Porterstown, due to what sounded like a problem with the vigilance device(some frantic pedal stomping was heard). The train was about 10 minutes late into Clonsilla and seemed to have trouble leaving there too. Interestingly enough, the particular train involved, 29010, for some reason has had the integral retarder (engine-assisted brake) reactivated after it was disabled a few years back on the 29s. It's been this way for a couple of weeks.