[16-4-2008] Maynooth and Sligo disruption

[gm101]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Once again another screw up, despite new track, new signaling and new trains the Sligo line is no better than the bad old days, in fact its probably worse

There is meant to be an emergency generator at each signaling location to deal with power failures, needless to say these frequently don't start due to poor maintenance

There are fairly strict procedures to swiftly deal with total signaling failures, there is a gate keeper on duty in Clonsilla who would be more than able to walk down the line to manually operate the level crossing beyond Clonsilla

thats not really true the generator only comes into effect when there is a mains power failure that fault was a link failure with the remote interlockings which is very serious and rare fault and also the generator is run on a weekly basis
with this fault you need to set up temporary block working which in itself is very time consuming and which will only allow you a very limted service if service at all