14-8-2006
 

8:05 Greystones Howth
PIS system switched off, no maps, no pa

8:08 Malahide Bray
Not showing a destination on rear coach, destination blind broken

1455 Bray - Malahide. Displaying "Howth" on the front (the 1441 had departed with "Malahide" on the front) and the PIS read "Destination: Malahide Next Stop: Bray" all the way into town. Fantastic.

Pete

pis brok, no lights or aircon
 

yesterday 14Aug on the 17:50 Pearse Dundalk

got on car 29104, there was no aircon working and it was hot, only 7 lights in the entire car worked/were lit; no pis display working,
robodude announced between Kilbarrack and HJ&D that "the next station is Malahide."
coming into Malahide - "The next station is Donabate"
coming into Donabate - "The next station is Rush & Lusk"
coming into R&L - fixed "The next station is Rush & Lusk."

15-8-2006
 

7:57 Maynooth Bray
PIS not working on rear 4 coaches, no destination shown on rear

7:59 Howth Bray
PIS not working on rear 4 coaches, Howth shown as destination on rear

17:25 Howth Bray (8622)
PA volume so low as to be inaudible

16-8-2006
 

17:25 Howth Bray (8622)
Map showed train starting from Connolly
PA volume so low as to be inaudible during automated announcements, manual pa volume good

19:07 Bray Malahide
PA worked but the displays didn't one was blank other was displaying a block of red

22:55 Howth Bray
No PA, No PIS, No maps

16-8-2005
 

1750 Pearse -- Dundalk

PIS got confused near Drogheda and started claiming that it was approaching Dundalk. Strangely, the Irish version stayed right and Robodude didn't announce the wrong station.

17-8-2006
 

17:25 Howth Bray (8601)
PIS working but no displays in front coach working
PA volume exteremly low
Announced CCTV where no CCTV is provided

18-8-2006
 

16:50 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

16-8-2006
 

Diesel Commuter passing through Tara Street at 6:50pm in a Southbound direction with passengers on board and "Connolly Station" on the from and back.

Friday August 18th:

15:11 southbound DART from Tara Street had no announcements & the LED display said "Destination Malahide" & "Next Stop: Malahide" all the way from Tara Street to Glenageary.

20-8-2006
 

19:35 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

19:50 Greystones Malahide
Showing Greystones as destination on rear coach

20:04 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

21:05 Howth Bray
No PIS, No PA, No Maps

21:30 Pearse Dundalk
External PIS displays played the usual switch on they stay off

7:30 PM 20/08/06 - From Cork to Heuston
 

The announcments on this MK3 operated service were unusually good. They were made by a lady with an English accent who spoke slowly, clearly and understandably. She provided even provided information about bus connections, car park locations, taxi rank locations etc when we arrived at Heuston.

The announcements from the dining car on the other hand were not great. The guy kept blowing into the microphone and the there was a terrible buzzing noise over the speech like something was short circuiting / grounding in the mic itself.

Certain IE staff seem to feel that they need to blow into or tap the mic everytime they use it. It sound absolutely aweful.

21-8-2006
 

7:59 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

7:57 Maynooth Bray
Side destination panels not working

21-8-2006 Galway-Dublin 1500
 

Today's train stopped at Geashill (about half way between Tullamore and Portarlington) to let the forrestry train by.

Over the PA there was an announcement for Portarlington. He then must have realised his mistake, and announced "We are now approaching Portarlington, in about 10 minutes." Then he said it again a little while later.

Bizarre. Could he have been having a little snooze and did he wake up when the train started stopping? It was a "slam door" drain so I wonder did anyone hop out on the bit of old platform thinking that Portarlington was getting a bit run down.

08:20 Drogheda-Connolly Enterprise

Coming into Connoly, the automatic announcement said, "We will shortly be arriving in Dundalk..."

Unusually, there was no manual announcement to correct it. Usually the train manager will make an announcement telling passengers about connections to Heuston and times ofn return trains to Belfast.

21-8-2006
 

17:25 Howth Bray (8612)
No PIS, No PA, No Maps
Rear destination showing Howth (plus one dead tail light)

21:48 Bray Malahide (8631/32 + 8122)
Rear destination showing Bray (plus one dead tail light 8322)

22-8-2006
 

7:59 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

23-8-2006
 

8:05 Greystones Bray
PA working but no displays working in front coach
Unit running the outdated chime software version

12:16 Howth Greystones
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

12:25 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear coach

16:20 Bray Howth
Showing Bray as destination on rear coach (8405)

17:15 Bray Malahide
Showing Bray as destination on rear coach (8632)

22:22 Pearse Dundalk
External side destination displays not working on rear 4 coaches

22:30 Pearse Maynooth
External side destination displays not working

24-8-2006
 

17:15 Howth Greystones
Showing Howth as destination on rear

17:50 Pearse Dundalk
Side destination displays not working

17:25 Howth Bray
Showing Howth as destination on rear

17:45 Bray Howth
No destination shown on rear

19:09 Bray Malahide
Showing Howth as destination on rear (8314)
PA notice re CCTV on a train without CCTV

22:05 Malahide Bray
Showing Malahide as destination on rear
PA notice re CCTV on a train without CCTV
No PIS displays working in front coach 8405

22:22 Pearse Dundalk
External side destination displays not working
No destination shown on rear

22:30 Pearse Maynooth
External side destination displays not working

25Aug06

at Grange road, coming into HJ&D on the 6:35 from Dundalk
robodude says "The next station is Connolly"