Yesterday was just plain unfortunate
The fatality at Kildare earlier put everything out of order to start with
The maintenance train failure occurred mid afternoon (Kildare was its base), single line working was implemented around the train. And this time since the new signalling was in place it was actually do able unlike incidents in the past where trains could not get in to the loop at Sallins
This left a large portion of the fleet south of Kildare, i.e, not able to get to Dublin for the evening rush
The later Cherryville Junction issue was by standards a relatively straightforward issue.
The only operational issue is that no shuttle service was operated from Hazelhatch to Heuston in the evening and from Newbridge to Heuston in the morning, that's the kind of on the go change that should be automatic. It doesn't help everyone but it gets a significant number of passengers moving to destination and can quickly be shifted to operate through to destination
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