I was probably on the train ahead of you and a series of goof ups occurred.
Firstly the first I knew of a problem was the platform PA I heard as my train rolled into Blackrock, it mentioned 'level crossing'
The driver was informed by radio at Booterstown after we all heard the platform pa, surely the driver should have found out first?
Driver to be fair gave the best and most useful PA's I have heard in ages
We then spent 13 minutes outside Sydney Parade despite the fact there was nothing stopping us from entering the station. The driver at this point failed to request permission to draw forward in the station as is possible and I have seen done in the past in similar circumstances
After another 10 odd minutes we moved to just short of Sandymount, 10 more minutes Sandymount, another 10 sat outside Lansdowne then after about 5 minutes we crawled out of Lansdowne
We had to pass the two signals approaching Lansdowne at red and it wasn't until we where half way to Grand Canal Dock did the computer finally hand the driver authority to accelerate to 100kph
I can see no reason why the gates where not manually locked down
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