[jscales1]

The train left Connolly on time and was going okay until Enfield. There was an announcement stating that the train would have to reverse out of the loop to allow the 13:00 from Sligo use the platform. The train was waiting in Enfield for 25 minutes. I could not believe that with all the carpark works completed recently in Enfield that they could not get the money to put in a platform opposite the current platform to allow train passengers to disembark the train in cases as we have seen in the this week. Then when the train arrived in Mullingar 16:35 I assumed it would wait for the 15:00 from Sligo to pass but it continued on its journey to Edgeworthtown so the 15:00 from Sligo must have been waiting 30 minutes for the 15:00 ex Connolly to pass by instead of giving the 15:00 from Sligo green light at Edgeworthtown and allowing it to make up time. The Sligo service is a mess when things go wrong and will suffer for this
it is time for some double tracking between Mullingar and Edgeworthtown even a mile or so of double tracking to allow the trains pass one another and reduce journey times