On train information and the lack thereof, post your experience

[colmoc]

No automatic display
No automatic announcement

[Mark Gleeson]

7:57 Maynooth Bray
8 car 2900
No internal or external displays working]

17:15 Howth Bray (normally Greystones)
Showing Howth as destination on rear

17:25 Howth Bray
8634/33/22/21
Usual next station blank for Sydney Parade otherwise working

[Mark Gleeson]

17:25 Howth Bray
8634/33/xx/xx
Usual next station blank for Sydney Parade otherwise working
Can't be sure but I'm almost certain it was showing Howth as destination

[James Shields]

17:50 Pearse - Dundalk

Had "?" scrolling across the internal display between Pearse and Tara St. Otherwise everything worked apart from an odd absence of spaces between words.

[Thomas J Stamp]

"?????????????"

LOL!!!!

Maybe the computer was trying to tell us something!!!

[Mark Gleeson]

17:25 Howth Bray
8636/35/30/29
Usual next station blank for Sydney Parade otherwise working PA
Internal displays in the lead coach where not working but the maps where

[Red Alert]

A few LUAS announcements seem to have been re-recorded on Line B / Green:

• Dundrum's 'as gaeilge' pronounciation is now a tiny bit better. Bus transfer is only advised for Ballinteer, Enniskerry
• Milltown now has the 'as gaeilge' station name (badly)
• Airport Express is no longer mentioned after Harcourt. It now says change for airport and rail transfers.

I really wish they would do something about the quality on the announements in general - the person who records them does not have a clear voice and the irish pronounciations are very dodgy.

[Mark Gleeson]

9:00 Dublin Cork

The automatic pa system didn't say a word

[Mark Gleeson]

8:25 Howth Bray
Howth shown as destination on rear coach

[Colm Donoghue]

17:50 Pearse Dundalk

car 29112 no display
coming into Donabate, the pa announced the next station is malahide.

getting off in Donanbate, the doors kept closing before half the people got off, in a bizarre opposite to what I've been complaining on another thread.

[hhf8]

yesteday, 0844 ex connolly going to howth,had next stop portmarnock,final destination bray

[Thomas the Tank]

Hi there,

Sorry for the really really dumb question but would someone mind explaining what timetable padding means? Is it that IE puts a departure time on their timetables but leave before that to get to their destination earlier, thereby making them look great??

Also just a ramble on the 8:16 Maynooth-Bray train. I've been travelling on that train for six months now and I would say 99.99% of the time there is a long stop between Drumcondra and Connolly stations. I believe the train is supposed to get into Connolly at 08:41 - this morning it was 8:47. Apart from the usual stop between Drumcondra and Connolly the doors did not open upon arrival at Connolly for at least 1 minute.
With regards to lack of information - only ONCE in that six months was an announcement ever made as to why we were not moving despite having only just pulled out of Drumcondra. On that one occasion the driver came on over the PA system, apologised profusely and told us that we were waiting for a platform in Connolly to clear. While we were still waiting a few minutes later he came on and apologised again and for the first morning I didn't feel p*ssed off about it! At least for once it showed that somebody in that bl*ody company was concerned (however slightly) about customer service. I cannot believe that we are delayed every morning on a roasting hot, crowded train by between 3-5mins and we're just supposed to accept it as one of them IE traditions!!

[Colm Donoghue]

This morning 6th April, the 7:58 service to Pearse from Rush and Lusk had "Bré Botanic" as it's destination

[packetswitch]

Where the hell is Bré Botanic??? I'd like to visit there some day.

[Thomas J Stamp]

'tis Botanic Road in Belfast. Nice to see that the ideals of a 32 county Republic live on in IE.

[philip]

Today on the above service the PIS kept announcing "this train is for <silence>" instead of "this train is for Docklands". It managed to call out the next station announcements ok though.

Return journey 14:32 Docklands->Clonsilla kept showing Ashtown as the next station on the led display.

0/2

[James Shields]

The new version seems to mostly work well, but is it just me or does the volume seem louder for the Irish language placenames? It comes across like robodude is shouting them out.

It's also still very short on gaps between sentences, with some messages messing a full stop, and all missing a space after the full stop, with the result that you get things like:

"This rain is for Dublin PearseThe next station is Dublin Connolly.Please have your ticket ready for validation..." (that's not exact, just an example of the sort of thing it produces).

[ThomasJ]

29000 set 8 car i was on this morning. Destination board at front of train displaying nenagh/st na bpiarsach

[MOH]

Good one on Wednesday evening. From Blackrock, there's a Malahide DART at 18.05 which doesn't stop at Killester, follow by an 18.10 to Howth which does, followed by another Malahide one which does.

Arrived at platform a few mins before 18.10.
Display reads: "1 Howth 5 mins."

After a few mins first line goes blank, second line reads: "2 Malahide 11 mins."
No problem there.

Then it changes to "1 Malahide 11 mins".

Just as I'm about to blow a fuse that my train has suddenly been scrapped, it comes around the bend. As it pulls up, the display changes to "1 Howth".

But the front of the train says Malahide.

At this stage I don't know if it's the Howth one, or the Malahide one which won't stop at my station.

As I get on, the platform display changes back to "1 Malahide".
But the on-board displays showed destination as Howth.

At that point I just gave up, sat down and hoped for the best. Luckily it turned out to be the right one, but god help any tourists trying to understand the system.

[ThomasJ]

Front destination screen displaying drumcondra/droichead atha