It is not correct to say that nothing can be done about it. They appear to have no contingency planning at all. Was there not a single bus to be hired in Sligo? It being mid-term, the school buses are all idle. Could one or two of them not be borrowed. Failing that, 25 or 30 taxis would get everyone off the train. This is a 4.5 hour delay we are talking about.
If the 16:00 train isn't needed, why is it on the time-table at all? Its absence would have been felt today in the loadings on the 1705.
It is also pretty absurd that they have got themselves in a situation where they basically cannot keep the wheels turning if a train gets trapped away from service facilities for a week.
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