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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Doesn't sound safe and I guess a video would be needed to check this out.
Rail rules do allow for something known as "calling on" which allows a train, to pull into a platform which already contains a train. Heuston platforms 2-8, Connolly platform 4 and platform 2 at Athlone are certainly equipped for this to my knowledge
Back in the old days in Rosslare in the morning an empty train would move to the already occupied platform so you had a Waterford and Dublin train in the same platform at the same time
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The procedure is absolutely safe and entirely within the rules. The second train is running on the authority of a subsidiary signal which indicates that the line ahead may be occupied. Same idea as joining trains at Athlone except in this instance tre trains don't join !