"Customer Service"

[Thomas J Stamp]

Nah, that set (6102) does get a lot of breakdowns, from the control cab end. There were indeed six jackets in the cab as i passed, and another inside the first carraige. Noticbale that it took off like the proverbial rocket and we were spared the hanging around Ballybrophy.

Was ten mins late all the way though, and the 1900 was only about two mins behind at Portlaoise.

[Mark Gleeson]

19:00 stopped outside Sallins and in Portarlington but we really ate the miles once we overtook the 18:40, 36.4 miles from Portloaise to Thurles including a stop in Ballybrophy took 31 minutes

For reasons unknown the 19:00 also called in Ballybrophy costing a further 4 minutes delay, no explanation of the delay which was 12 minutes by Thurles, there was no catering trolley on 19:00 and the train was not actually powered up when I boarded so seat res was not on when most boarded