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They also promised to review procedures and the supply of information to passengers when incidents like these occur.
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How many times have we heard that before.
I see no reason why 60 minutes to clear the machine, it failed before 15.00, immediate action would be dispatch a locomotive from Heuston, use single line out of Nass, Inbound line wouldn't of being overly busy and then move the machine to New bridge or Kildare or even return to the loop in Nass. This absolute bulls**t that maintenance staff are on site trying to fix the fault is just causing more problems and getting very little productive done until they realize it can't be fixed. If something fails in the middle of nowhere the probability of it being fixed there and then is very slim.
Over the while we have had:
10.00 to Cork failure at Newbridge, 2 hours to clear.
Westport train failure which too around 3 hours to get another 22k to push it to Newbridge.
Track machine fail south of Kildare which took 3 hours+ to use a locomotive sitting in Kildare to move it.
The management have the brass neck to say we will review procedures. This just blatant lies as they have being saying this for years. DO they think passengers are mugs. This will happen again and the 3 hour and 4 hour delays will not change.