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Unread 09-03-2007, 13:21   #1
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Default [9-3-2007] 12:30 Belfast Dublin & 15:20 Dublin Belfast

Seems like they are transferring to a C3K

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Enterprise - 1230 Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly 9-Mar-2007 13:20
Due to mechanical diffciulties passengers will be transferred on to an non-Enterprise train at Belfast Great Victoria Street. As such First Plus will not be available and catering will be limited.

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Unread 09-03-2007, 13:55   #2
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Getting worse

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Due to mechanical difficulties passengers will be transferred on to a non-Enterprise train at Belfast Great Victoria Street. As such First Plus will not be available and catering will be limited. This service will also operate with a delay of approximately 62 minutes.
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Unread 09-03-2007, 15:37   #3
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12:30 reached Dublin a few minutes ago, it operated as a C3k

Looking at a least 20 minutes delay on the 15:20 going north, but since it runs non stop to Dundalk it should claw back a lot of that when it faces the hills

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I didn't get a chance to report at the time, but a couple of weeks ago the morning service out of Dublin was operated by the Sligo Mk2s, which turned into the Gatwicks pulled by 8113 in the evening.
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what is the state of the DDs, are they going to be replaced,refurbed?. There seems to be a high amount of failures for a premier line
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What are the problems?
Failing locos due to HEP demands?
or some glitch with the coaches?
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Seems to be coach related in the main, there is a spare locomotive in Connolly and York Rd thus if it was HEP they would simply swap and get moving

218 was swapped out at Connolly on Monday at 15:00 with a HEP fault, replacement loco rolled in no delay to passengers

Take one look at a enterprise set and it obvious they are not cared for in any way by NIR, there is a long list of evidence that NIR can't maintain anything half right. things been good until about 2 weeks ago, the parking brake issue seems to have gone away but things went crazy over the last 2 weeks
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they're is one set that looks a state,the connolly mk2 set looks better than it
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Wouldn't it make more sense for NIR to contract maintenence to Inchicore ?
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