7.40 Waterford to Heuston train delayed at Athy
 

Hi,

Anyone else experience the delay we had this morning on the 7.40 Waterford train? The train was @5 mins late into Athy (no problems there).

Got on the train. After 30 mins, we were told that we would be going again in 5 minutes, at that point, everyone from the first 3 carriages were told to go and sit in the back 3 carriages. After another 30 mins of waiting, they told everyone with hospital appointments or going to the airport to get off the train and get on mini-buses, still no word on how long we would be sitting there for.

I got off the train at 10.30am, spoke to the station master, who said maintenance from Portlaoise were coming over and would be there in @10 mins and he had no idea when the train would be fixed and no plans about it either.

I gave up and drove to Dublin at this point, I have no idea how long the poor people were sitting on the train for and have no idea when they got to Dublin - I saw no sign of anything on the Irish Rail website in relation to this either.

The usual no communication unless necessary irish rail.

There was this, but perhaps a bit late.

http://twitter.com/irishrail/

Thanks for that, didn't know the updates went to that. I see the time is slightly off though, what time is it using?

I've not checked but possibly where ever the Twitter servers are, possibly in California.

Its relative to the time the page is viewed

If I posted at 16:00 and the time now is 16:16, it would read 16 minutes ago

When I view the page at 16:00 tomorrow it will say the exact time and date

But the time zone may be off.

http://twitter.com/settings/account

The RUI account, as well as the Translink and Irish Rail accounts are set to GMT

That seems to only work if you are logged in. For example, this was posted late in the evening, not int he afternoon.

http://twitter.com/irishrail/