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Unread 22-09-2009, 09:08   #1
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Monday Morning: 08.38 ex coolmine delayed 12 minutes due to the sligo intercity train being welll late.

Q1: Why should 700 odd commuters have to wait on 400 people on the sligo train? If the sligo train is late, why not let it wait behind the next maynooth commuter train?


Tuesday Morning: Getting the 08.58 to connolly. At the station at 08.52 there is a train on the platform. No markings on the train, so if it looks like and sounds like the 08.48 docklands train, it is the docklands train, right??

WRONG:
at 08.58 I realise that I (and 50 others at the platform) have been done yet again by another master stroke of Irish Rail genius.
Up pulls the docklands train. So not having any other choice for 25 minutes, I get on it. But there is still people at the station waiting on the (never to arrive) 08.58 to connolly as we pull off.

Q2: Why cant irish rail make an announcment at the station that the trains had swapped places? Why cant they let the trains run in the proper order but say 5 minutes late?
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Unread 22-09-2009, 10:24   #2
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I know the East Cork line has a less frequent service than the Maynooth line, but last Friday, the 16:00 Cork - Cobh stopped @ Little Island. About 10 people got on, thinking that it was the 16:15 to Midleton. It was a 2600 train, scrolls broken (showing Tullamore at one end, and nothing at the driving direction end). When the train headed for Fota they knew they were on the train! It does not help that the timetables @ Little Island are for Glounthaune! And the timetables @ Glounthaune are for Little Island! I would love to meet the person that put up those timetables and ask him why? The timetables have been up for about a week before the reopening of the Midleton line.

In Stuttgart, Germany, the tram system is set up that when a tram is entering into its destination terminus, they pass over a sensor which updates the destination display (internally and externally). This goes for the Stuttgart buses as well.

I suppose though, the enhancement of the customer's confusion is just another part of Irish Rail!
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Unread 22-09-2009, 10:29   #3
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The issue of non functional destination displays has been raised numerous times with IE

New EU laws will require certain basic information. Failure to display the destination front, rear and sides where fitted is in breech of a whole heap of accessibilty rules
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Unread 24-09-2009, 13:49   #4
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Monday Morning: 08.38 ex coolmine delayed 12 minutes due to the sligo intercity train being welll late.

Q1: Why should 700 odd commuters have to wait on 400 people on the sligo train? If the sligo train is late, why not let it wait behind the next maynooth commuter train?
ColmMacO I was going to post on this very thing tomorrow morning after I'd finished gathering my week's info on the persistent lateness of the Docklands train due to being stuck behind the persistently late Sligo train. I cannot recall the last time the Docklands 8.28 service ex Coolmine was on time, which prompted me to take note of the arrival times this week. Monday as you say correctly it was 12 mins late, Tuesday 4 mins late, Wednesday 7 mins late and this morning 6 mins late. I would faint with shock if it was on time tomorrow morning.

When the Docklands service first started running it left Coolmine at 8.23 (Clonsilla presumably at 8.21), and everything ran pretty much on time. Then the geniuses in IE decided to change the timetable to run it 8.28 ex Coolmine to allow for this bloody Sligo train that holds the whole show up. It's completely infuriating. Not only is it late departing Clonsilla, it also stops for two mins just past Broombridge to allow for an outbound service to cross over. Outrageous!
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Unread 25-09-2009, 08:13   #5
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And just to round off the week nicely, Docklands 4 mins late this morning. 0 from 5. Nice work IE
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Unread 29-10-2009, 13:09   #6
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08.17 ex maynooth arrived 15 minutes late this morning (29-10) due to sligo train being late.
08.40 was on time.
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Unread 29-10-2009, 13:14   #7
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yep i had that same problem on Monday.

The afternoon inbound sligo train left maynooth ten minutes late having knock on affects on the maynooth train that was held. The maynooth train left fifteen minutes late.
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08:17 late again this morning.
10 minutes late arriving into coolmine.
Docklands train also a few mins delayed.

Missed connecting bray train.
Next dart to greystones was also ten minutes late.
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Unread 02-11-2009, 17:45   #9
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08:17 late again this morning.
10 minutes late arriving into coolmine.
Docklands train also a few mins delayed.

Missed connecting bray train.
Next dart to greystones was also ten minutes late.
colm did you notice how slow the train was leaving coolmine ? I was on the train on saturday and i couldnt believe how slow the train was leaving the stations and how long it took it to pick up speed ! It was like there was a speed restriction !

It was ten minutes late arriving at clonsilla. Fifteen minutes late arriving at connolly.
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The wheelslip problem is getting truly ridiculous at this stage.
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colm did you notice how slow the train was leaving coolmine ? I was on the train on saturday and i couldnt believe how slow the train was leaving the stations and how long it took it to pick up speed ! It was like there was a speed restriction !

It was ten minutes late arriving at clonsilla. Fifteen minutes late arriving at connolly.
To be honest thomas, I didnt notice the slow speed of the train.
But then again, I was so shocked at getting a seat in the morning I was distracted from everything else.
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Unread 03-11-2009, 16:51   #12
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This mornings stats show all trains before 9am where either marginally early or less than 3 minutes late into Connolly
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Unread 04-11-2009, 17:25   #13
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This mornings stats show all trains before 9am where either marginally early or less than 3 minutes late into Connolly
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That would be correct.
But I guarantee next monday, the 08.38 (coolmine) will be delayed behind the sligo train.
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Unread 04-11-2009, 17:27   #14
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Our records show arrival

Mon 09:13:36
Tues 09:03:24
Wed 09:04:24

We have people to log these things

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Unread 04-11-2009, 17:42   #15
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Our records show arrival

Mon 09:13:36
Tues 09:03:24
Wed 09:04:24

We have people to log these things

What, no millisecond resolution??
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Sadly not, though we are working on a project to record the arrival of every single train
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Fair play.
thats some undertaking.
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Unread 09-11-2009, 11:37   #18
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08.17 ex maynooth on time this morning.
Joy!!
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Not only on time but exactly to within a few seconds. Had you been on the train before or after you would have been late
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9:13 this morning
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