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I had planned on picking someone up from the Enteprise on Saturday evening and getting the DART back home. Enterprise arrives late (but at least I could see the likely time from the display over the gates at Connolly) and we make a beeline for platform 6 where there is a DART due in 4 minutes. Everyone rushes up the ramp when they see a train on platform 6, only . . . . it's all very eerily quiet and the train is empty. The display says Bray 2 minutes, then Bray 1 minute, then Bray, then the train glides off in the direction of Clontarf Road. All without so much as a mumble from the overhead announcer.

At this stage I had seen a number of people asking the bouncers (something I had never seen before since I normally take the DART at commuting time) on the platform and had overheard something about the train being broken.

Display reads Bray 13 minutes. Great, maybe I would be better off heading up towards O'Connell Street and getting a bus. Just as I was about to leave (with the display still saying something like 11 or 12 minutes) a train pulls in, with people aboard. Ghosts apparently, since this train had just appeared in place of the failed one and wasn't supposed to be operating. After that, all went well and I got home, but the lack of announcements was ridiculous. This train didn't just fail and get swapped out in a second - it was known about, but nobody bothered updating the displays just in case the passengers got wind of something.

I've just realised that the train sitting at the platform must have been the previous train, and the one which arrived in with passengers must have been the scheduled one, that's the only way it could make sense.

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