[13-03-2007] 6pm - no northbound DART/Commuter services until ???

hhf8 · 13-03-2007, 19:56

has this been sorted,mate tried to get the 17.10 from connolly. Said there'd be an hr delay,ended up getting the bus eireann to balbriggan

ThomasJ · 13-03-2007, 20:15

Major disruption at the moment. Amongst the list of cancellations are the 19.00 pearse to maynooth and return journey although the evening longford service did not leave blackrock until half six so that probably made connolly around seven. The 20.17 connolly to drogheda has been cancelled. The rosslare europort to drogheda train will call at all stations. Alot of southbound darts cancelled as well

eugene · 13-03-2007, 20:31

Affected me this evening too in Tara Street, was told to go to Connolly for the Maynooth train, waited there for 15 minutes then decided to head to the new Docklands station (only had to get to Broombridge as I live in South Finglas)

Lucky I could do that for once, interesting ride up along Withworth Road, had been looking down on the those tracks for ages waiting for a train to come up and down them.

One person on the train say that this train would be full within a few weeks will all the people who work in the IFSC who should be taking it instead.

hhf8 · 13-03-2007, 20:35

ah jaysus!,any idea on when its getting back to normal?,out in dcu,would like to get the 11.20 home,don't want to waste a journey into town

Rashers · 13-03-2007, 21:53

The earlier delays really caught IE offguard.
CTC made a complete balls-up with the information, and even after standing in Lansdowne Road station for 1 hour, they were still announcing, they would come back with more information.
I rang up Connolly information and later their booking office who advised, that CTC were not giving out any information. I was trying to get the 16.50 Bray to Drogheda service, which around 18.15 'disappeared' off the displays. Connolly information thought it had been cancelled mid route, but they told me that really they had no idea where it had vanished to.
So the last DART through Lansdowne was at 17.15 approx. The next DART afterwards was the one that failed. At 18.10, CTC decided to route one of the northbound DARTs stuck behind the 17.15 one, onto the southbound platform in Lansdowne. They then routed this back onto the northbound line to just before Grand Canal dock. However, after 15 mins waiting just north of there, the service was then routed onto the southbound platform at Pearse street. By now confusion rained.
The DART driver decided not to bother telling anyone what was happening.
I rang Connolly to find out should I head for the 18.40 Connolly-Drogheda service, but they advised the earlier 18.15 Pearse - Drogheda was waiting in Pearse street (In fact they did not even know this service had failed, and was now blocking the northbound line/platform). They did kindly advise the 18.40 would leave without any of the connecting passengers stuck on this DART.
I got off there, and got on the delayed 18.15 service, which left around 18.50. A 4 car Maynooth service pulled in on the southbound platform, and looked like it was mopped. It left ahead of the Drogheda service, but was then held in Connolly, with what looked liked issues to do with the crowds trying to get on.

Interestingly, when I checked the IE website @ 17.15, it showed the next service northbound as my Drogheda service. But when I got to the station at 17.20 it showed the previous DART was delayed. Great new website, same incorrect and false 'live' feeds.

It really was a disasterous evening for IE. Complete service breakdown. Terrible information flows. No one seemed to know what was happening. When things go wrong they sometimes seem to abandon the passengers, which is what seems to have happened tonight.
I would expect notices in the stations tomorrow morning, given the serious nature of the impact, but we'll wait and see what Barry + Corporate Communications can do.

Colm Moore · 13-03-2007, 22:08

Did someone die? Nothing on www.rte.ie or www.eircom.net or http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/

ThomasJ · 13-03-2007, 22:11

Tara street advised passengers waiting on maynooth to make their own way to connolly. Apparently heavy load walked from tara street to connolly cue the passenger issues at connolly. No inititive by ie to inform or remind passengers that docklands services were running without any hitches in fact docklands has barely been plugged by the other city centre stations. Customer service youre joking

ThomasJ · 13-03-2007, 22:23

Does anyone know if both maynooth and longford trains departed bray this evening. Judging by rashers post the train sitting in blackrock around half six was in fact the 17.25 to maynooth can anyone confirm this

Mark Gleeson · 13-03-2007, 22:14

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.

robdrysdale · 14-03-2007, 12:23

Quote:

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.

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.

13-03-2007, 19:56	#1
hhf8 Regular Poster Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Balbriggan Posts: 137	has this been sorted,mate tried to get the 17.10 from connolly. Said there'd be an hr delay,ended up getting the bus eireann to balbriggan __________________ Compute the Commute

13-03-2007, 20:35	#4
hhf8 Regular Poster Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Balbriggan Posts: 137	ah jaysus!,any idea on when its getting back to normal?,out in dcu,would like to get the 11.20 home,don't want to waste a journey into town __________________ Compute the Commute

13-03-2007, 21:53	#5
Rashers Really Regular Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 431	Nightmare The earlier delays really caught IE offguard. CTC made a complete balls-up with the information, and even after standing in Lansdowne Road station for 1 hour, they were still announcing, they would come back with more information. I rang up Connolly information and later their booking office who advised, that CTC were not giving out any information. I was trying to get the 16.50 Bray to Drogheda service, which around 18.15 'disappeared' off the displays. Connolly information thought it had been cancelled mid route, but they told me that really they had no idea where it had vanished to. So the last DART through Lansdowne was at 17.15 approx. The next DART afterwards was the one that failed. At 18.10, CTC decided to route one of the northbound DARTs stuck behind the 17.15 one, onto the southbound platform in Lansdowne. They then routed this back onto the northbound line to just before Grand Canal dock. However, after 15 mins waiting just north of there, the service was then routed onto the southbound platform at Pearse street. By now confusion rained. The DART driver decided not to bother telling anyone what was happening. I rang Connolly to find out should I head for the 18.40 Connolly-Drogheda service, but they advised the earlier 18.15 Pearse - Drogheda was waiting in Pearse street (In fact they did not even know this service had failed, and was now blocking the northbound line/platform). They did kindly advise the 18.40 would leave without any of the connecting passengers stuck on this DART. I got off there, and got on the delayed 18.15 service, which left around 18.50. A 4 car Maynooth service pulled in on the southbound platform, and looked like it was mopped. It left ahead of the Drogheda service, but was then held in Connolly, with what looked liked issues to do with the crowds trying to get on. Interestingly, when I checked the IE website @ 17.15, it showed the next service northbound as my Drogheda service. But when I got to the station at 17.20 it showed the previous DART was delayed. Great new website, same incorrect and false 'live' feeds. It really was a disasterous evening for IE. Complete service breakdown. Terrible information flows. No one seemed to know what was happening. When things go wrong they sometimes seem to abandon the passengers, which is what seems to have happened tonight. I would expect notices in the stations tomorrow morning, given the serious nature of the impact, but we'll wait and see what Barry + Corporate Communications can do.

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13-03-2007, 20:15	#2
ThomasJ Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Clonsilla Posts: 2,812	Major disruption at the moment. Amongst the list of cancellations are the 19.00 pearse to maynooth and return journey although the evening longford service did not leave blackrock until half six so that probably made connolly around seven. The 20.17 connolly to drogheda has been cancelled. The rosslare europort to drogheda train will call at all stations. Alot of southbound darts cancelled as well

13-03-2007, 20:31	#3
eugene Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 132	Affected me this evening too in Tara Street, was told to go to Connolly for the Maynooth train, waited there for 15 minutes then decided to head to the new Docklands station (only had to get to Broombridge as I live in South Finglas) Lucky I could do that for once, interesting ride up along Withworth Road, had been looking down on the those tracks for ages waiting for a train to come up and down them. One person on the train say that this train would be full within a few weeks will all the people who work in the IFSC who should be taking it instead.

13-03-2007, 22:08	#6
Colm Moore Local Liaison Officer Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,442	Did someone die? Nothing on www.rte.ie or www.eircom.net or http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/

13-03-2007, 22:11	#7
ThomasJ Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Clonsilla Posts: 2,812	Tara street advised passengers waiting on maynooth to make their own way to connolly. Apparently heavy load walked from tara street to connolly cue the passenger issues at connolly. No inititive by ie to inform or remind passengers that docklands services were running without any hitches in fact docklands has barely been plugged by the other city centre stations. Customer service youre joking

13-03-2007, 22:23	#8
ThomasJ Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Clonsilla Posts: 2,812	Does anyone know if both maynooth and longford trains departed bray this evening. Judging by rashers post the train sitting in blackrock around half six was in fact the 17.25 to maynooth can anyone confirm this

13-03-2007, 22:14	#9
Mark Gleeson Technical Officer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Coach C, Seat 33 Posts: 12,669	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.