Rail Users Ireland Forum

Rail Users Ireland Forum (http://www.railusers.ie/forum/index.php)
-   All stops to Thurles (http://www.railusers.ie/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=26)
-   -   Hazelhatch delays 05.09.13 (http://www.railusers.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=14884)

Kilkea 05-09-2013 17:16

Hazelhatch delays 05.09.13
 
On the 6.10 from Heuston to Portlaoise. Announcement that a train has broke down at Hazelhatch and we cannot depart. Anyone know if it is only the slow track blocked? Tempted to jump on 6.35 Waterford if fast track is open.

Jamie2k9 05-09-2013 17:30

17.10 to Athlone failed after departing Hazelhatch, departures starting to resume while around 45 minute delays for services that went after the 17.10.

At least they did the sensible thing and stopped departures.

grainne whale 06-09-2013 10:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamie2k9 (Post 72242)
17.10 to Athlone failed after departing Hazelhatch, departures starting to resume while around 45 minute delays for services that went after the 17.10.

At least they did the sensible thing and stopped departures.

The 17.10 train actually does not stop at Hazelhatch the first stop is Newbridge. Breakdowns are happening quite frequently now, will passengers be compensated again, like they were after the 9th July fiasco.:rolleyes:

Jamie2k9 06-09-2013 12:51

Quote:

The 17.10 train actually does not stop at Hazelhatch the first stop is Newbridge. Breakdowns are happening quite frequently now, will passengers be compensated again, like they were after the 9th July fiasco.
Yeah it uses the fast track but by the time it passed Hazelhatch it had a delay of 20 minutes because of the problems.

Wouldn't say breakdowns are happening a lot, its the first passenger service in a while to cause a hold up. remember in July it wasn't a train.

Overall they handled it better than July.

grainne whale 06-09-2013 13:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamie2k9 (Post 72247)
Yeah it uses the fast track but by the time it passed Hazelhatch it had a delay of 20 minutes because of the problems.

Wouldn't say breakdowns are happening a lot, its the first passenger service in a while to cause a hold up. remember in July it wasn't a train.

Overall they handled it better than July.

Actually it was a great inconvenience as I had to run someone in as far as Heuston to catch the 9pm Cork train. He was waiting for the 8.13pm from Hazelhatch to Heuston to link up with it, however when he reached the station (Hazelhatch) this was already running 15 mins late with no guarantee that it would reach Heuston in time. And yes, the breakdowns are quiet frequent and annoying as I had to make an unnecessary car journey because of it.
PS The delay in July was due to an incident at Kildare, which was sorted out by lunchtime, however the other causes, IR certainly had some control over: a signalling failure and the breakdown on a maintenance vehicle. - IR really run a shoddy service - ie. no investment.

Jamie2k9 06-09-2013 14:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by grainne whale (Post 72249)
Actually it was a great inconvenience as I had to run someone in as far as Heuston to catch the 9pm Cork train. He was waiting for the 8.13pm from Hazelhatch to Heuston to link up with it, however when he reached the station (Hazelhatch) this was already running 15 mins late with no guarantee that it would reach Heuston in time. And yes, the breakdowns are quiet frequent and annoying as I had to make an unnecessary car journey because of it.
PS The delay in July was due to an incident at Kildare, which was sorted out by lunchtime, however the other causes, IR certainly had some control over: a signalling failure and the breakdown on a maintenance vehicle. - IR really run a shoddy service - ie. no investment.

Fair enough, we'll agree to disagree on breakdowns being frequent.

You should take the no investment up with Department of Transport as all they see bothered with is roads. The link below might give you some idea why such problems are happening and who is to blame for it....

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-29529647.html


All times are GMT. The time now is 18:49.

Powered by vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.