[01/11/2010] Delays of up to 15 minutes on DART, but mostly OK

[Colm Moore]

Delays of up to 15 minutes on DART, but mostly OK.

http://irishrail.ie/your_journey/results.asp

Journey Southbound Service Sch ETA Due In Latest Information

Dublin Connolly to Greystones(E100) DART 07:09 07:23 5 Mins Departed Shankill

Howth to Bray(E201) DART 07:14 07:29 11 Mins Departed Dalkey

Malahide to Greystones(E101) DART 07:39 07:40 22 Mins Arrived Salthill

Howth to Bray(E202) DART 07:54 08:01 43 Mins Departed Clontarf Road

[Colm Moore]

Delays of about 10 minutes on most southbound DARTs.

[Rashers]

Ground Hog day again...
I assume it was all related to wheelslip, but no additional information on displays etc.
Delays of on average 10 mins to all southbound DARTS and Drogheda services up to 09.40am, No impact on maynooth originating services.
However, 07.10 Dundalk to Bray was delayed for 20 minutes. Delay was on the Donabate Connolly leg of the journey. It arrived in Donabate at 8.11am, and departed Connolly at 08.51am= 40 mins for a non stop section.

[Colm Moore]

Originally Posted by Rashers

I assume it was all related to wheelslip

I'm not so sure. It looks like something caused a specific delay somewhere and a whole series of trains were late out of Howth.

Surely wheelslip would have a distributed effect and not predominantly affect many/all southbound trains for a specific time period.

[dowlingm]

I see that Rotem are building an antislip mechanism into their Silverliner V EMUs for Philadelphia but it still needs some work based on the performance of the early deliveries. It's a problem worldwide - probably have better luck mounting a big vacuum on a loco and sucking the leaves off the trees.