So once again another goof up

I don't call one train a service

This was just sent around by TaxSaver Sales desk?

There was a note earlier on the Irish rail website in the Maynooth/clonsilla disruption news item that the 18:18 Connolly Longford and 19:05 Connolly Sligo would run. This has now disappeared?

So why they hell isn't that on the Irish Rail website

Keeps changing

I'd love to know how 7 x 8 carriage trains full of people are supposed to fit onto 4 (7 if you include 66x) x 90 ish seater No 66 Dublin Bus's (between 5pm and 7 pm):

Trains serving Maynooth:

17:15
17:28
17:46
18:05
18:08
18:18
18:39

Buses serving Maynooth:
http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey...lectedRoute=66

1720
1810
1835
1855

66X
1700
1730
1800

So basically it's go F yourself again if you live on that line.

Mark, given that they are talking 2011 for the resignalling (presuming it to be for new signalling equipment) I take it that there will be more of this with the current signalling system on the maynooth/sligo line to come?

Or could management learn a lesson from this and get it fasttracked?

I would not like to be on either the 18:09 to Longford or the 19:05 to Sligo. Will they stop the Sligo train at all stations or will it be first stop Maynooth I wonder?

It says above that no stops at Maynooth or before.

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If a signalling fault is stopping maynooth/clonsilla from running, how are longford/sligo getting past porterstown?

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The answer to that is very very slowly.
Was walking the canal between coolmine and porterstown level crossing about 3.30 today, the sligo train (which i believe was 3 hours or so late?) crawled by at probably 5-10 mph. Normally zips by at speed.
Presume there are severe speed restrictions so.

Unfortuantly after several years walking to work, I will soon have to resume using this desperate service. Not looking forward to it.

IE are a joke
 

A 22k left connolly sligo bound at about 5.30pm. The announcer at conolly said about 30 times that the first stop would be kilcock and then all stations from there. We eventually arrived at Maynooth and it stopped there and some people got off.
We trundled on to kilcock and passed through it without stopping. Needless to say passengers were quick to get onto the driver to tell him what an idiot he was!!. He then announced to the whole train that he was told by IE the first stop was to be Mullingar i.e a 17.05 dublin-sligo service!!.
We then stopped at Enfield and he appolgized on behalf of himself for another cock-up by IE. (they were his own words)
IE is run by a group of cowboys who could not organise a p**s up in a brewery. Why are they never held accountably when these things happen?
Why is there no back up plan? Would we not be better off if it was run by private enterprise?

Got to Conolly at about 18:05, announcements saying that all Maynooth services were cancelled, but trains WOULD run to Sligo and Longford. Train on the board was showing 18:28 (? is that correct) to Longford, first stopping in Kilkock.... guy in Orange top walking up and down the platform telling people it would stop at all stations.. despite the anouncements saying otherwise... v confusing...

Anyway, train turned up on time, pretty much empty, plenty of standing room even after everyone had piled on. Driver annouced it would stop at ALL stations to Longford. He didn't delay at any of the stations, and I made it to Castleknock in record time!

What's the chance that the signalling problem will be sorted by tomorrow morning? Anyone taking any bets??

I'm not :mad:

My experience with Irish Rail is that there is a greater chance of services not running in the morning.

Even if they are running, there's no guarantee the traveling public will get clear concise information anyway.

Heard a guy who with all the traffic in lucan it took him two and a half hours by bus to get to maynooth.

Note they did two separate announcements at 1745.

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=237http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=228

Just updated.

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=237

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=237

Looks that way Mark.
Suspended till "further notice", but I'm sure they're all tucked up in their beds with their warm cups of cocoa by now.

After all, they're not private sector employees who have to keep working however long it takes to fix a problem when they f**k up.

Will have to take the car in the N4 and up the quays tomorrow. I'm having nightmares already. Oh well at least my fuel duties, income tax and PRSI will be going to a good cause, paying these clowns' wages. :mad: [/rant]

The message coming of Irish rail tonight seems to be that nothing is guaranteed for the morning. The problem is still there and you need to check before travelling in the morning.

Although why is it taking more than 12 hours to resolve this problem?

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=237

Curiously this appeared

Question to be asked is why such a service was not provided yesterday