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[15-5-2006] Severe Delays Maynooth line
There was a train failure this morning
7:57 Maynooth Bray died at Broombridge and required assistance leading to serious delays IE site has the generic delay notice but no details If the delay exceeded one hour, claim a refund http://www.platform11.org/passenger_info/refunds.php |
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Most commuters on that route would have annual tickets. How does that work for refunds? I was on that train; it eventually got into Connolly at 10.15. In fairness, the announcements and information was pretty good, though thats a change from the norm. |
We are looking for an arrangement like the UK and Northern Ireland where is punctuality and reliability fails before a set standard a 5% or even 10% discount be applied to monthly and annual ticket holders
We are pushing this and will continue to do so That level of delay is excessive it should have been possible to get people to town faster. We don't know what went wrong. |
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http://www.unison.ie/irish_independe...issue_id=14046 |
Do we know which class of train this was?
Is the Maynooth line reversably signalled? Could trains have been diverted through the other platform in Broombridge? |
Was a 29000 unit, being a brake system fault its not actually important what rolling stock it was. Brake system failures are fairly indiscriminate
The down line (Sligo bound) is supposed to be reversible. Wrong line working is possible using the crossover at Clonsilla level crossing and then onwards to the traling crossover at west of Glasnevin Junc, it does appear to be signalled for such but I don't know if the level crossings are signalled to allow it. |
The signalling system in general seems to be very slow about identifying problems and trying to work around them. It should be far quicker to spot, "Okay everythings stuck behind train X. It's obviously going nowhere. Here are gaps on the opposite line that train Y can fit through."
I don't think we should be turning everything over to the computers, but the point of information systems is to give the human controllers options and aid them in making decisions to resolve the problem quickly. |
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