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From what i recall in the days after the collapse there was a coach running all stations from donabate onwards and that it looked like this could be a long term thing. Obviously not sadly by the looks of things but i would still check just in case. |
While the replacement bus service in general isn't bad, the frequency after 7pm is very poor. When the train ran there were services at least every hour, and ovten more frequent if you include the Enterprise.
Instead we now have 19:00, 21:00 and 23:20. This compares to train times on 19:00, 19:21, 20:17, 20:33, 20:45, 21:25, 22:29, 23:20. In my experience, all of these trains carry a reasonable number of passengers. I think buses at 20:00 and 22:00 would at least be warranted. |
Just thought i would mention that somrthing cought my eye when getting off the train in platform 5 in connolly.
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Slightly ironic that the northern ireland tourist board has a banner for heading north on the northbound platform at pearse
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They were piling at the site this evening. I could see on my way back from training. Sadly there isnt any decent areas to get a good up close look.
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Thats a good sign in itself. They really can get the finger out when they have to. Not often I have praise for Irish Rail, but the Permanent Way boys are in many ways the unsung heroes in there.
Hopefully it will all be up and running within 3 months. The trouble is that the newspapers will want to sensationalise it on a slow news day, and engage in scaremongering. Lets face it....we have faced 25 years minus a passenger fatality on Irish Railways, and I doubt that any other Railway system in the world has that record. But it could so easily have been a tragedy. |
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There are still deaths amongst staff, trespassers, people at level crossings and suicides. I do recollect an incident in the late 1980s were some fool stuck his head out a window just before a bridge. |
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5 weeks on Irish Rail are still in denial about the viaduct.
The notices still say 'subsidence' which makes it sound like someone elses fault, whereas 'collapse' is the correct term to use. |
are there any more substantive updates on how long this is likely to take?
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Its no longer 'subsidence' its now an 'accident' so much for the correct term 'collapse'
Work is ongoing , the collapsed pier has been rebuilt and the remaining piers are being worked on so it looks like it will be reopened within the 3 month window, last weekend in November is the likely date |
An Enterprise set crossed this morning and if you look from the platform in Malahide there are trains parked on both tracks. Looks to be a Tara Mines train from the distance.
Back in business from Monday |
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