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[article] - 13.00 Heuston/Cork Failure 1 August
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-31435856.html
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If IE were through to form I bet they decided to bring the locomotive, removed the failed one to Portarlington and ran back and continued to Cork. You know the way to that causes the most disruption and inconvenience to passengers..... They really seem to hate hauling services, back a few years ago and you had 2700 hauling failed 22000 and so on but today it's we need to fix on the spot. Anyone remember a number of years ago a 201 was driving a Cork-Dublin service after the DVT failed en route and the pushing loco was kept on. Am I missing something as to why the have changed have the RSC for example told them they can't?/ |
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10-08-2015, 17:34 | #2 |
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The section of track where the breakdown occurred would appear to be common to 5 lines: Dublin to Cork, Galway, Limerick, Tralee and Westport.
It would be interesting to understand how much more quickly the locomotive might have been cleared if the network was privatised, seeing as it's on the cards anyway. I suspect compensation would be due by the company operating the offending train to the network operator and / or other company's operating trains stuck behind (who have to pay compensation to passengers). This motivating force would seem like one of the beneficial sides to privatisation to me. Anyone know how similar situations are handled in the UK? |
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In the UK rail operators are fined for delays/failures and time taken. Only on the news this evening Network Rail were fined 2 million in the last year because operators were forced to cancel or delay services. Worth noting the majority of trains in the UK are DMU's and the HST services can run on one engine so I expect full failures are not a major issue + lots of lines interconnect to make things easier. |
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None of us know the exact nature of the failure so saying x or y should have happened is frankly daft. What this did expose, however, was an appalling lack of customer service in not being able to advise passengers at a major junction station such as Portarlington as to what had happened. Not staffing major Intercity stations such as this is ludicrous. |
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Sometimes the Dart uses audio platform announcements, though these can often be difficult to make any sense of. |
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You speak of the UK, yes some failures happen but FGW will be fined thousands and by will they do everything to ensure it doesn't happen again, what will IE do....process refunds next time and time and time again. IE are not doing enough quickly enough and until this changes we will be here again. This exposed noting that me or any member of the public didn't know already and an article in the Indo won't change anything. |
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It happens more than you seem to think, and generally results in long delays for customers (several hours). The difference is that they manage communication with customers somewhat better. Last edited by berneyarms : 11-08-2015 at 11:29. |
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