Station Opening Hours.
coming from balbriggan, The station never seems to be open in the evenings. When i go down at 7 its closed and on Sundays its like they close up at 3ish, going for a 6.30 train and nobody to get a ticket from. Then I found this on the IE Site
Balbriggan Station Staff Hours: 06.00-20.15 Mon-Sat; 08.00-19.00 Sun So is the station on flextime or daylight savings for the winter? |
Blackrock, Seapoint, Booterstown, Lansdowne etc suffer from this as well
Its not in the charter but its in the offical memorandum of agreement with the DoT all stations will display clearly there hours of business. Only station I've ever seen do that is Thurles |
so the times on the IE site are wrong?, or are they just shutting shop early?
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So you met Mr PS2, I've hada trouble with him in the past, laptop and portable dvd player as well. No uniform either
Other two guys are sound What is really strange is a senior IE manager uses the station surprised this has gone on so long unnoticed by authority It was consistently closed after 6pm Sat and Sun, was open last week though |
sounds like fun to me!
well balbriggan was open last night at 7.00,maybe it was for late night shopping:) |
Well the mystery of Blackrock has been solved
Its opening hours on weekend are now 10am to 7:30pm there is a notice outside the station. It also tells you to use the call button on the platform if you are a mobility impaired passenger Now I don't get this the ramp is locked in the station, DART coaches don't carry a ramp so how does it work?? Of course no notice on the website which tells me the station is open till 11:00 pm 7 days a week |
Seapoint closed at 19.30 today, the shutters were up, nobody in the office (lights off) with a handwritten notice in the window saying someone would be back in 20 mins. Bit of a joke tbh.
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At least the old notice was written properly the new one is a scrawl
But we have a TVM now |
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halts opening hours
the reason alot of dart halts (especialy the quiter ones) are constantly closed is because when the depots are short staffed the men are told to fill the depot job and just leave the halt empty.
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Be a hiring freeze currently.
In some cases the staff seem to be bunking off early, the opening hours bear no resemblance to the official ones, but then again Irish Rail never published the opening hours. |
I think there is a firing freeze going on as well. :D
I would use my phone to video the closed station and show the notice for opening time, show the closed office and show time on the platform as well. Build up a few viedos and then send 3 copies, one to RTE, one to a paper and the 3rd to Irish Rail. :rolleyes: |
Thats the kind of evidence we need more of
My favourite is the fact in Seapoint the TVM is locked up behind the shutters when they close up, for a company claiming to be stuck for cash they really are making it as hard as possible on themselves to take your money off you |
Same thing happens in Sandymount. The TVM on the southbound side is inside the booking office building so you could understand that one being closed but the northbound one is always shuttered when the station is unattended.
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Clonsilla is now left open even when unmanned so you can get to the TVM and through the barriers after hours (the way it should be). Not sure if all Maynooth line stations are like this now. This was last Friday evening, 22.20 train into town.
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Yep noticed that tonight.Coolmine also seems to be the same. Not sure about the ticket office think quays open unmanned. but there are now two tvms on the citybound platform.
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sallins on sunday was unmanned and no sign of a TVM
no ticket checker in heuston either ... |
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