The trolley on the 19:05 could in no way cope with everyone on board looking for a drink. The trolley would have to stop several times to reheat the boiler, they carry a power lead for the purpose. But they would run out of cups fairly quickly.
Under no circumstances is alcohol to be released for free, you would be hard pushed to serve more than 20 from the supply carried anyway. Incidentally the driver has to track down a manager by phone to release the catering. Needless to say that isn't easy after 6pm.
We don't know what happened yet but the SSI system in Maynooth died again, as the Sligo line is effectively saturated with trains in the evening peak even an instant reversion to manual would result in serious delays as there are more trains going out than heading towards Dublin
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