[25/10/2011] Connolly, DART, Luas - disruption potential

[Mark Gleeson]

DART carries 17 million per annum which is more than twice the sum of Northern and Maynooth usage

There is flooding (Serpentine Ave is a known problem location). All routes are running

Compare to Luas which has just given up between Balally and City because they have no redundancy in there power supply

[Mickey H]

Line now closed Newry to Portadown due to flood damage

[markpb]

Why was Drumcondra closed?

[TheDarkSide]

Glasnevin junction was badly flooded

[ThomasJ]

Major disruption - NO DARTs NORTH OF CONNOLLY - Major signalling fault

Dublin area floods:Major disruption to Northbound DART and Commuter services by Corporate Communications

Tuesday 25th October - UPDATE 18:40hrs

MAJOR SIGNAL FAULT AT HOWTH JUNCTION DUE TO FLOODING

No DART services currently operating North of Connolly. DART services operating between Connolly and Bray/Greystones only

Dublin Bus are honouring all rail tickets

Northern Commuter services are still operating but subject to severe delays

Maynooth services are operating subject to minor delays. Drumcondra Station has reopened.

UPDATE: Belfast services 16:50 and 19:00 Connolly - Belfast services will be amalgamated due to a set shortage. A bus transfer will be in place between Newry and Portadown with a train from Portadown to Belfast. The bus transfer is expected to remain for the duration of service this evening.

Sligo services are operating subject to minor delays

Rosslare services are operating subject to minor delays



All Heuston services are operating.

We will update this website and our twitter account http://twitter.com/irishrail with the latest service information.

We apologise for the disruption, and thank customers for their patience and understanding.

[Inniskeen]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

DART carries 17 million per annum which is more than twice the sum of Northern and Maynooth usage

There is flooding (Serpentine Ave is a known problem location). All routes are running

Compare to Luas which has just given up between Balally and City because they have no redundancy in there power supply

Don't think your numbers are entirely correct. DART services according to the CSO (based on figures from Irish Rail) indicate that 17.520 million journeys were made on DART in 2009. During the same year 11.868 million journeys were made on other Dublin suburban services. The latter figure would essentially relate to northern and western services (presumeably stations stations from Kilcock eastwards and Balbriggan southwards). Working the numbers would suggest that usage of inbound northern line combined with inbound western line services significantly exceed inbound northern line DART services. Likewise in the reverse direction. This calculation discounts intercity journeys from Enfield westwards and Gormanston northwards.

When you take into account the much lower average DART journey length, the near absolute priority given to DART is on somewhat shaky grounds. On top of this DART usage has been essentially stagnant for years while there has been massive growth in western and northern services.