[11/10/2010] Delays on DART / Northern Line / Enterprise

[Colm Moore]

06:50 Belfast Central-Dublin Connolly running 32 minutes late @ Prtmarknowck. DART and Northern Line delays of 5-15 mnutes.

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Journey Northbound

Service Sch ETA Due In Latest Information

Greystones to Howth(E906) DART 09:22 09:32 11 Mins Departed Sandymount

Bray to Howth(E907) DART 09:38 09:41 20 Mins Arrived Seapoint

Dun Laoghaire to Dublin Connolly(E705) DART 09:31 09:43 22 Mins Departed Dun Laoghaire


Journey Southbound Service Sch ETA Due In Latest Information

Malahide to Greystones(E106) DART 09:24 09:25 4 Mins Departed Killester

Maynooth to Dublin Connolly(P724) 09:22 09:27 6 Mins Departed Drumcondra

Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly(A121) 09:04 09:36 15 Mins Departed Portmarnock

Howth to Bray(E207) DART 09:39 09:40 19 Mins Departed Sutton

Drogheda to Dublin Pearse(P607) 09:28 09:44 23 Mins Departed Donabate

[Rashers]

Here's what I think happened on the Northern Suburban line this morning:
07.05am Connolly to Drogheda failed just north of Connolly and came back into Connolly to offload it's passengers.
The 07.35 Connolly to Belfast was forced to stop at selected suburban stations to pick up passengers. It stopped at Skerries around 08.00am, but not Balbriggan?
Inbound the 07.10am Dundalk to Bray was replaced by a 6 carriage service. This was heavily loaded and full at Donabate, leaving passengers behind there. It seemed to catch up some time, but sat north of Connolly, and was about 12 minutes late south of Pearse street. Not a single announcement on the train, on the platforms, via the display etc.
When I got into work, I checked the realtime info. into Bray, and it showed every southbound DART, Maynooth and Drogheda originating train up to 20 mins late up to 10am. When I checked with Connolly information desk, they knew nothing about any delays, except the 07.05am Connolly-Drogheda train failure. When I asked them to check, they investigated, and reverted to say in fact wheel slippage had caused a lot of delays. He agreed there had been no information for passengers, and said he would mention it to someone in authority.
Same old, same old Irish Rail