[09/07/2013] Severe delays to/from Heuston (second incident)
 

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4867&p=116&n=237

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4867&p=116&n=237

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Signal fault at Cherryville latest problem added to the list.

Services back moving, I am currently 2h50m late.:mad:

What is the reasoning behind having a track maintenance machine moving around at peak times?

would not call 14.30 peak time and even if it was scheduled to be earlier outbound Heuston services didn't resume until 12.45 this afternoon.

First announcement on twitter that it had failed was at approx 16:30, which is peak time. Even if it was delayed because of the earlier Kildare incident, surely passenger services should take priority.

It failed before 14.45 departure to Westport as all trains since then have being stopped, single line was used for a little bit, then the signal failure at Cherryville which at the minute is causing more delays.

Services from Heuston have being stopped since 18.20 as the 14.50 from Waterford is blocking the 15.10 at Cherryville Junction. Driver hops to be moving soon, have heard this one a lot today.

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4869&p=116&n=237
On the move 3 and a half hours late.

I see a rumour started on twitter saying the heat caused a track problem and not a broken machine. Anyone confirm?

18.25 from Waterford-Heuston will be a bus transfer.

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4870&p=116&n=237

Train failures and signalling faults are all too common now - and this inept company are concentrating all their efforts on fare evasion - enough said :D

I don't mind failures etc $hit happens! What I do mind is that there was no plan whatsoever yesterday in place to alleviatethe delays e.g. start combining services in Heuston and dropping other services. They wouldn't even do that because they did not have the capacity.

I was on the 5:05 train to Ballybrophy ( got there about 9:30 ). It was half-empty.

My friend was on the 4:25 to Ballybrophy ( got there about 8:50 ). It was also half-empty.

I would hope someone has done an analysis that says that the fare evasion crackdown will pay for itself through issued fines and increased compliance.

' probably just cover the new CEO's salary, allowances etc.:)

I've just posted off my claim form with a photocopy of my annual ticket.

Most likely they will issue vouchers.

Do they print your name on the vouchers? I was hoping to give them to a friend of mine who typically goes up 1-2 days per week from Ballybrophy. Might save them some money perhaps.

EVERYONE CLAIM!!

Don't let this shower away with this.

Sorry for the all-caps above. I've wrecked this morning (poor widdle me ;) )

I don't blame you, I was delayed as well (1 Hour - but only going to Hazelhatch), but nothing like other people, a work colleague who commutes from Thurles, he got a train around 4ish and reached Thurles at 9.25pm.:eek:

The thing which really irritates me is that there was no leadership shown here. A year or two ago something similar happened and they started to cancel/merge certain services to reduce the amount of possible delay. Why could they not do that yesterday? Is the place in such a shambles? I was talking to the guys at the ticket validating machines in Heuston and they did not have a clue. Not blaming them per say but the whole thing was like something out of Father Ted.

Can Mark & the other shed any light on yesterday's joke of a service and why they did not merge services out of Heuston?