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Unread 05-04-2008, 12:29   #1
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Default 16:50 Connolly - Belfast Central

16:50 from Connolly left exactly on time but ended up crawling the whole way from Skerries to Drogheda due to a commuter train ahead. This certainly isn't the first time this has happened. Does anyone know whether this is down to bad timetabling/signalling decisions? I know an 8 car commuter will carry more people, but there's a significant cost incentive for keeping the people happy on the packed and overpriced cross-border trains.

Ended up missing my connection in Portadown over the head of it. Since it only arrived in Portadown 6 mins after the scheduled departure of the local train to Belfast, I presume there were further knock-on problems for the Enterprise as it had to sit behind an all stops service from Lisburn into GVS.
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There was a problem with the signaling in Dublin earlier

Also the ability to overtake a commuter train at Balbriggan is unavailable at the moment as repairs following the Skerries accident are ongoing

A 6 minutes late NIR really should have held the connnection
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Ironically I paid for that journey with the vouchers from the Skerries derailment debacle
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