Once again another total mess
We have Irish Rail staff in the press office contradicting the very notices they have placed on the Irish Rail website
We have drivers being told to stop at stations while passengers told the train won't
No clear information of what trains actually ran, we think the 17:05, 18:18 and 19:05 all ran but all left well late for no reason
Irish Rail failed to implement a proper manual system to operate the service, they could have had 3 trains an hour last night, remind anyone of the Skerries mess?
Despite the signaling being modern with backup generators, batteries and emergency control panels the whole show died
Despite 6 hours no contingency plan was in place
One thing you can say about victorian signaling is that it was simple single point of failure stuff at most one set of points or one signal would die and generally required a lump hammer and a spanner to fix
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