Broombridge Question

[cait]

Thanks Mark for the useful comments

I want aware of the liffey valley interchange you mentioned, it sounds reasonable enough if it actually gets built and if its only 200m from the present station I would be very happy with that as it would be very close to me.

I find using the station in Broombridge quite handy and I have never experienced any problems regarding acts of vandalism or attempted de-raillings. I wasn't aware that a ticket office had been burnt out twice either, but I guess that explains why there is nothing there now. Could you expand on "the urban legend about the bouquet of flowers" whats all that about, sounds nasty
In my opinion it's a catch 22 situation there at Broombridge. because its unmanned and located close to empty factories it is a target for vandalism, but its also under-utlilzed. I dont undestand the reason for this but for most people in the area the bus links are very good

Ill take your advice and check out the rpa site and add my comments

Thanks again

[Mark Gleeson]

The lack of a staff presence is the real problem, I wouldn't blame anyone for avoiding the place.

There was quite a sustained period of chaos in 2004, it reached a point where a barricade was placed across the tracks, the train struck but the driver managed to reverse back and clear the obstruction http://www.platform11.org/media/pres...no=pr_030.html

The bouquet of flowers story dates from the time the modern Maynooth service began 1990. In a strange twist to the IE we all love to hate on the opening day a bouquet of flowers was presented to the first female passenger at the new stations, no female passenger showed up at Broombridge

Hopefully things in Broombridge will clean up with the Luas as it will become an important interchange

As always if something goes wrong we would love to know, in particular any specific issues as IE tend to be useful about things like that, train times are a different issue