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11-01-2008, 00:27 | #1 |
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Derailment on northern line
A goods train has derailed in the Skerries area. It may or may not be a problem for early morning services on the 11/1/08.
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11-01-2008, 06:44 | #2 |
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According to my girlfriend who was listening to fm104 services are cancled into dublin. However the garda station in drogheda knows nothing of it, and the mcbride stations phone is engaged. I couldnt catch any news at half on my terrible radio.
We're going to try and see if it is running, but i doubt it.!
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Update
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11-01-2008, 07:18 | #4 |
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For the fun of it, went to real time information. Show's services operating normally:
Real Time Train Information Results - 07:16 Southbound trains serving Balbriggan in the next 30 minutes Journey ETA Scheduled Platform Due In Current Location Drogheda to Bray 07:34 07:34 1 18 Mins Drogheda Dundalk to Connolly 07:42 07:42 1 26 Mins Dundalk This information is an estimate of arrival times based on the current location of train services from Iarnród Éireann's central signalling system, and on scheduled journey time from areas under local signalling control. Cirumstances subsequent to the time of enquiry cannot be factored into this information. |
11-01-2008, 08:28 | #5 |
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Maybe this will have an effect on their %age of trains 'on time'.... or maybe not..
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11-01-2008, 09:22 | #6 |
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The usual IE can't be arsed approach
1. There is no reason what so ever that a full service cannot be operated between Laytown Drogheda and Dundalk or even as far as Balbriggan, people do commute to other places 2. The incident took place last night and effected the 22:22 ex Pearse and the 23:20 ex Connolly, no notice appeared on the IE site until this morning 3. As usual IE don't say you are entitled to a refund. Its a derailment of a train almost certainly IE are at fault somewhere. Anyone with a weekly, monthly or annual ticket is entitled to claim compensation. So face value annual divided by 424 is what you are due per journey while the line remains closed. On Enterprise just about everyone traveling on ticket purchased before the notification of the derailment, i.e pre bookings or people using the return portion of a ticket are entitled to a refund since the bus transfer is going to lead to delays, 25% refunds apply on all enterprise services once 30 minutes late
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11-01-2008, 12:20 | #7 |
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Word now is the northbound track has been reopened
IE have not updated the notice on their site Trains will have to run wrong track Malahide to Skerries
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RTE News- Updated 12.11
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0111/rail.html Quote:
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11-01-2008, 12:45 | #9 | |
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http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/...ew&news_id=321
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11-01-2008, 12:47 | #10 |
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I arrived in dundalk, for once not checking here or having heard the news! It must have been premonition as I didn't want to get out of bed this morning!!! Anyway when i got to the Station at 7.40 i noted that the bottom carpark was relatively empty, which I found strange... the upper carpark was full and there was a bus pulling out of the station, about 50% full... It was then I found out about the situation.. those of us arriving were told of the derailment and that they couldn't get any more busses to take us to dublin as they were all used on the earlier services and that we would have to make our own way to Dublin... I asked about refunds and was told that I would have to contact head office to find out if i was entitled to a refund! When i said i had an annual ticket one of the other personal spoke up and said I would be entitled to one and to get a refund form and apply for a refund... I eventually drove to Howth Junction (easier for me to get parking than malahide)
Where did IE come up with that 7000 no for commuters? Is it based on nos of weekly/monthly/annual ticket holders from all the stations? of based on the maximum capacity of the trains? |
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at 1240 per 8 coach train it does appear to be roughly correct, maybe a little low in fact
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Time seems to have no meaning to Irish Rail, why can't they just use the last modifed time which they get for free
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11-01-2008, 15:53 | #14 | |
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Another update
Close to full isn't full. No listing of the actual trains running Quote:
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