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Originally Posted by berneyarms
As I understand it they have to visit the depot in Drogheda or Portlaoise every 48 hours for basic servicing (excluding fuelling and toilet discharge which can happen at terminal stations).
Totally agree about the locations of maintenance facilities. While on the Heuston side it is covered (in the main) by the hourly Heuston/Portlaoise services, the facility was located in Portlaoise for purely political reasons.
Moving ICR maintenance from Connolly to Drogheda was utter madness as it means trains are unavailable for roughly 1.5 hours more than necessary due to having to travel to/from Drogheda. Cost savings from sharing resources (one depot) to me have to be offset by the unnecessary additional downtime that causes, and the reduction in rostering flexibility.
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The 48 hour is the fuel/toilets and its once weekly for general service AFAIK. They carry out different sort of checks eg a D check takes place once a month and is only carried out in Portlaoise. The depot couldn't handle up to 63 units passing through every 48 hrs. They carry out some work in Heuston to.
Locating in Portlaoise while not good it does deliver advantages to.