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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Add in a DART which sat down just off the platform in Portmarnock
Every year, the second we get some cold weather the points freeze and chaos ensues
Strange the guys in Belfast have no problems, they installed point heaters there is lesson in that somewhere.
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This morning's DART and northern commuter services were a mess due to various points failures compounded by operational ineptitude.
The 0700 from Dundalk (2 x 3 x ICR, with perhaps 900 passengers) left Malahide at 0808 but was held outside Howth Junction to allow the 0802 from Howth to run ahead. Given that the nearest southbound train was then just approaching Connolly this nonsense resulted in a further gratuitous delay of almost 15 minutes to an already miserably slow service.