[20/12/2010] Travel News
 

05:05 Galway-Dublin Heuston is running 21 minutes late.

Slight delays on a small number of DARTs.

20/12/10 07:00 Dublin to Cork
 

Left Portlaoise at 08:22, 30 minutes late, following several signal stops including a prolonged one outside Portlaoise.

Points frozen at Limerick and Portloaise this morning

[20-12-2010] weatherwatch
 

snow about to hit parts of the capital shortly,

could be fun later!

seems to be snowing alot along the DART line by the coast ATM

Very very heavy snow in Dublin City Centre now, around Baggot Street and Leeson Street. I'm on the 10th floor of a building and it looks pretty much widespread across the city. It's sticking too because it has been so cold today.

Take it handy

Dart services currently suspended howth-howth junction

Dublin bus accepting rail tickets on bus services of affected area

Howth to Howth Junction services have now resumed
 

http://twitter.com/irishrail/http://twitter.com/irishrail/
http://irishrail.ie/news_centre/travel_alerts.asp?action=view&news_id=969

1030 Cork-Heuston (29 mins late)
1100 Connolly-Belfast Central (16 mins late)
1147 Limerick Junction-Limerick (23 mins late)
1200 Limerick-Limerick Junction (7 mins late)

Delays of 5-15 minues on 20% of DARTs

Blackrock Station
 

Just for reference according to Dublin Bus neither the 17, nor the 114 are able to access the area around the station, operating from frascati road instead

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Cent...r-Disruptions/

I'd be interested to see how the 114 will manage that

update from irish rail

17+ 114 back serving Blackrock

Appears the substation in Greystones has tripped out, its the only one which does not have a dual grid connection.

back running between bray and greystones

luas green line only operating between st stephens green and sandyford with a bus service between sandyford and brides glen

1235 Belfast-Dublin cancelled apparently without alternative transport 1410 ex Belfast running 46 minutes late due to line closure Belfast-Lisburn because of signal problems

I expect that means a 29K on the 1520 to Belfast and another one or a significant delay for the 1650

Source: translink twitter

1520 Connolly to Belfast will operate with bus transfer Dundalk to Belfast due to mechanical fault
31 minutes ago via ÜberTwitter

Not letting the 29 cross the border????

Allowing one would be illegal

back to the same problem with buses serving blackrock station again!

I thought they could cross the border with two drivers in the event of an enterprise failure. There was an 8 coach one in Belfast on December 5th

If we catch Irish Rail breaking NI law again there will be trouble

Irish Rail has NO exemptions from the rules and haven't applied for any.

Why is it illegal?:confused:

Irish trains other than Enterprise sets don't have the required safety equipment to operate on the NI network.

Ah okay, thanks

all the fun at the moment seems to be with the coastal areas, I'd say there are some views along the DART line at the moment

although it wouldnt surprise me if the front moves inland.

Could be a long night for Dublin ! :D

yeah god love ye :p

apparently there was a blizzard in Howth earlier

i see what you mean!

but everytime this happens the city comes to a halt and none of you decent country folk can get home in under 7 hours! :p

For those relying on buses, traffic is very slow between leeson street and stephen's green, it's almost at a standstill. Once you get to college green and the quays it's moving, albeit very slowly. A lot of buses stuck around stephens green in traffic.

Trains seem to be operating fine out of hueston

Presently 40 min delays to Northern suburban trains to Drogheda...
Nothing in the IE travel alerts or on their twitter....:mad:

went to get the 1542 Lansdowne to Malahide (1500 Greystones to Malahide)

just before i left work everything running fine. Around 3.30

As getting to the station barriers go down and me thinking that is great dart on time. next thing a dart flies through northbound (out of service on it) and the next dart not due till 1555 which said it was the (1500 Greystones to Malahide)

No announcement on delays.

Therefore I was left standing around for over a half an hour to get any kind of train to maynooth.

The arklow train pulled into Pearse just before 16.30 only around 20 mins late. They blamed the weather

Luas operating fully; no mention of Connolly though, possibly closed
 

Irish Rail - Docklands likely to remain closed in the morning
 

http://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/16966915842908160http://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/16939792797274112http://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/16932464559661057
http://irishrail.ie/news_centre/travel_alerts.asp?action=view&news_id=969

Enterprise, DART, Northern & Kildare line delays
 

Northbound

2050 Dublin Connolly-Belfast Central is running 31 minutes late.
2225 Dublin Pearse-Dundalk 11 minutes late.

2125 Bray-Howth is running 44 minutes late.
2155 Bray-Howth is running 32 minutes late.
2225 Bray-Howth is running 16 minutes late.

2130 Greystones-Malahide is running 41 mins late.
2200 Greystones-Malahide is running 20 mins late.

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Southbound

2205 Drogheda-Dublin Connolly is running 31 minutes late.
2210 Malahide-Bray is running 10 minutes late.
2215 Howth-Greystones is running 43 minutes late.

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Kildare Line

2250 Kildare-Dublin Heuston is running 15 minutes late.