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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
What I have pieced together is as follows
Think it was the 17:02 Dun Laoghaire Howth failed at Merrion Gates. It failed in such a position that the crossovers at Merrion could not be used to route trains around it. Train behind it was a 29k which can't couple up to tow it out.
The 18:15 Pearse Drogheda suffered a technical fault of some kind in platform 1 Pearse at 18:15
Single line working was implemented Dun Laoghaire - Lansdowne and through Pearse. the system is designed to allow this, however the location of the failure at Merrion meant this solution was not very effective. The failure in Pearse completely wrecked the turn-back strategy
The 16:50 Bray Drogheda was caught at the signal at the Circus site in Booterstown, there where 3 8 coach 29k sets trapped.
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I must have been the luckiest bugger yesterday. I arrived in Blackrock station at 18:05 to get the 18:10 Northbound Dart. There was a commuter train waiting on the Northbound platform (not sure if this was the Drogheda or Maynooth service). As I was walking down the road there was a platform announcement that the next Northbound Dart would arrive at the Southbound Platform. The train departed with me on it packed to the rafters and passed a Northbound Dart waiting just before Booterstown (not actually in the station). The gates were permanently down with a Garda Jeep parked across them and Gardai directing traffic. The broken down Dart was the far side of the Merrion Gates (about 400-500 metres passed the gates on the Northbound side). There was an IE guy in one of the centre driver cabs and 2 IE guys waking along the tracks from the gates. The middle 2 (or maybe 4) carriages had no power. The offending train was either a Tokyu or Alstom. Loads of browned off passengers on board.
As we got into Sydney Parade (still going Northbound on the Southbound side) the offending train pulled in on the Northbound platform. We took off so didn't see after that. We changed onto the Northbound side past Landsdowne and pulled in to the Northbound platform at Grand Canel Dock. There was a wait outside Pearse until we were passed by a South bound Dart. We crossed back to the Southbound side and pulled into the Southbound platform at Pearse. There was a commuter train sitting on the Northbound platform (marked Drogheda if I remember correctly). No idea why this was just sitting here. We left and crossed back over to the Northbound site where we remained for the rest of the trip. I got off at Harmonstown only 20 mins later than I normally one. Bit jammy I think.
Hope this confirms what you are saying.