Just to advise everyone, that NRG did have a follow up meeting with Irish Rail. They have appointed a project manager to oversee the promised work. To date the main thing that we have noticed is the opening of the gate adjacent to Platform 3 in Newbridge, which greatly improves passenger's ease of exit from the station, secondly they have reopended the Waiting room on the Dublin bound platform.
Outstanding to date are the additional shelters on the platform, the additional bicycle shed, new tannoys and CCTV, and the realignment and additonal car park spaces.
In our meeting they did appear confident that this would be delivered by end of June. However they did advise that they required a budget for the CCTV and tannoys and that this was holding up this aspect of the work!
On sour note they have introduced a gate on foot bridge to the Dublin bound platform on the basis of Health & Safety. They advised that this will only be operational for "slam-door" type trains of which there are only two departing from Dublin. They advised that this is being implemented on all stations that are manned. Do you know if this is true??
Any assistance onthis would be great!
Regards,
Garrett
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