Fire Brigade put out train on fire

[James Shields]

From Clubcrown's description, this incident sounds very similar to the Skerries one. It doesn't sound like the fire suppression system activated here either, and the train would probably have been fit to continue with that engine shut down once the fire brigade had checked it out.

Mark, all I'm saying is that the people I spoke to believed they had seen flames, so as far as I am concerned, that part of the story is not a fabrication. It was dodgy reporting that made the leap from "people saw flames" to "the train was on fire".

[Mark Gleeson]

Thats the problem no one checks the facts

Said train will get a new engine and will be back in service for tonight or tomorrow. The engines are being refurbished currently so could be a failure of a refurbished model since such failures normal occur at lowish engine hours or at extremes

[Colm Donoghue]

I was getting a 29k from Rush and Lusk to Connolly at lunchtime yesterday.
When we were stoppine at the stations along the way there was a good amount of smoke/dust/whatever coming from the side of the train.
I was in the third car (wheelchair toilet one)of a 4 car train, the smoke /whatever seemed to be coming from in front of the carriage's forward doors on the non-platform side going south, so would have been platformside goint north or west.
never noticed this before maybe this was the same set that failed later. I imagine it may have looked "on Fire" if it was much worse than what I saw.