[09-11/10/2010] Delays on Maynooth line

[Trampas]

Seems like delays all morning on the Maynooth line.

7.15 from Maynooth to Connolly pulled into Maynooth after 7.20.

In station they said something along the lines of a problem with the longford train which I can't understand how longford side can effect a train from dublin to maynooth

[James Howard]

Based on the fact that the 0545 from Sligo was 25 minutes late getting to Connolly, I would have expected the 0545 frm Longford to have been 10 or 15 minutes late at Maynooth.

So the 0715 from Maynooth would have ended up late because it had to let the Longford train through first.

I guess we are in for a week or two of chaos due to the extremely shocking and surprising event of all the leaves suddenly dropping of the trees. This is surely an unprecedented environemental catastophe that couldn't have been predicted or avoided.

[Trampas]

James the 7.15 arrives at 6.50ish and stops on the otherside to the 5.45 longford train.

[ThomasJ]

This is a wheelslip (autumn leaves) problem. Every single year it repeats itself without fail! last friday I got off the 23:10 in ashtown and the usual symptoms of the revving of the engine and the length of time to depart the station!

Here's the thread from last year!
http://www.railusers.ie/forum/showth...ight=Wheelslip

[europhile]

Ashtown. 12.06 arrived at 12.22. No announcement. I phoned Irish Rail at 12.12 and they told me the next train was at 12.50. The scheduled time. She then phoned Control at my insistence who told her that there'd be a train at 12.19. I am livid.

Why no information?

Is there a direct number that can be phoned for train information rather than sitting through endless Options?

[Mark Gleeson]

On the Maynooth line, there is no live data source so unless you call the signalman in Maynooth you ain't going to get a straight answer. It will be at least 3 years before that is resolved.

Elsewhere you can get live info online, at the platform, or on the screen in the booking office