Surely 95% of reasons are “slow-ass cunts delaying the doors closing” or “scrotes taking the mickey requiring us to stay longer to turf them off”
Leaves on the track is a perfectly acceptable excuse. Yes.
They also need to provide updates on a platform other than X. I’m not logging into that nazi wankfest to find out why a train is late.
They often don’t even seem to bother updating ppl who are actually on the train and just tweet it.
It isn’t 2015 and it’s not a normal platform anymore.
My favourite is the on-platform signage that always says a train is on time even when the tannoy is telling us it is late. Once the schedule time has passed, the train disappears from the board, even though this is the exact time you most want it to be on the board.
I know why the trains are delayed. ITs the hourly Belfast one. We dont have the infrastructure for it.
The 8:40 takes longer to let the Enterprise go past. The same with the the 9:15, The same in the evenings.
any traing past 16:40 is delayed by on average at least 5 minutes i would say. Just to see the Enterprise fly past or the Newry train.
Its a great inter boarder idea il admit, but it isnt working.
Based on personal experience.
Because the train wasn’t on time
Isn’t it do with obsolete signaling system?
As someone who’s train has been late every time I’ve taken it for the past four months, I would be thrilled to be a bit more transparency and accountability. I’m so sick of hearing “operational reasons”.
I get the intention, the same with busses, and its possibly useful, but really we know what the solution is – and its more trains, more busses, and more staff for each, as well as more staff and automation on the operations side. The money is going in, and to my mind the service is far better than it used to be, but its far from fighting fit yet.
Signal failures, trains still use PWM signals to speaker to trains/drivers. I dunno if that’s just an Irish managed decline thing or if other cities are like that too
“Due to the operational difficulties” was this week’s announcement on the platform.
The system is massively over-capacity.
When you have that, the system can’t handle inevitable minor blips and they compound into proper delays.
The system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up on all new alightments. The only ones simply aren’t fit for purpose. They’ve already squeezed as much as they can out of the old system. Thinking you can get any more is like thinking you can build a motorway in a winding country lane.
I thought the fanfare over the all-island rail review was genuinely depressing because it was so bad – someone just took a few crayons to the old system map. I genuinely don’t know how it took more than 5 minutes and certainly didn’t involve any research.
it didn’t address any of the problems in the current system, didn’t propose a single km of new track, and didn’t realise that most of the lines that it proposed reopening are long sold off and are now houses, farms, businesses, national roads and plenty more.
The problem, as always, is with the managerial incapacity of the Irish state and its offshoots. To be fair to Irish rail Connolly is a very complex system, handling local DART and intercity, and provincial diesel. So it needs investment in tracks and electrification and it needs a time travelling device to invest 20 years ago. They are buying new DARTs but nothing will free capacity like actually fixing the underlying infrastructure.
They still manually load the seat bookings from a usb. This is asking a lot
So much of the actual failure on both bus and rail seems to come down to employee absences. Where are sackings?
I think they couldn’t be clearer on the reason. Their attitude and communications scream “we don’t give a damn about our passengers” and at its heart that is the main reason the trains are late.
Christ the ignorance in here as to how the actual rail system works is laughable.
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Surely 95% of reasons are “slow-ass cunts delaying the doors closing” or “scrotes taking the mickey requiring us to stay longer to turf them off”
Leaves on the track is a perfectly acceptable excuse. Yes.
They also need to provide updates on a platform other than X. I’m not logging into that nazi wankfest to find out why a train is late.
They often don’t even seem to bother updating ppl who are actually on the train and just tweet it.
It isn’t 2015 and it’s not a normal platform anymore.
My favourite is the on-platform signage that always says a train is on time even when the tannoy is telling us it is late. Once the schedule time has passed, the train disappears from the board, even though this is the exact time you most want it to be on the board.
I know why the trains are delayed. ITs the hourly Belfast one. We dont have the infrastructure for it.
The 8:40 takes longer to let the Enterprise go past. The same with the the 9:15, The same in the evenings.
any traing past 16:40 is delayed by on average at least 5 minutes i would say. Just to see the Enterprise fly past or the Newry train.
Its a great inter boarder idea il admit, but it isnt working.
Based on personal experience.
Because the train wasn’t on time
Isn’t it do with obsolete signaling system?
As someone who’s train has been late every time I’ve taken it for the past four months, I would be thrilled to be a bit more transparency and accountability. I’m so sick of hearing “operational reasons”.
I get the intention, the same with busses, and its possibly useful, but really we know what the solution is – and its more trains, more busses, and more staff for each, as well as more staff and automation on the operations side. The money is going in, and to my mind the service is far better than it used to be, but its far from fighting fit yet.
Signal failures, trains still use PWM signals to speaker to trains/drivers. I dunno if that’s just an Irish managed decline thing or if other cities are like that too
“Due to the operational difficulties” was this week’s announcement on the platform.
The system is massively over-capacity.
When you have that, the system can’t handle inevitable minor blips and they compound into proper delays.
The system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up on all new alightments. The only ones simply aren’t fit for purpose. They’ve already squeezed as much as they can out of the old system. Thinking you can get any more is like thinking you can build a motorway in a winding country lane.
I thought the fanfare over the all-island rail review was genuinely depressing because it was so bad – someone just took a few crayons to the old system map. I genuinely don’t know how it took more than 5 minutes and certainly didn’t involve any research.
it didn’t address any of the problems in the current system, didn’t propose a single km of new track, and didn’t realise that most of the lines that it proposed reopening are long sold off and are now houses, farms, businesses, national roads and plenty more.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJ-ns9sEdQ&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJ-ns9sEdQ&t=381s) For anyone who didn’t see this. It might help.
The problem, as always, is with the managerial incapacity of the Irish state and its offshoots. To be fair to Irish rail Connolly is a very complex system, handling local DART and intercity, and provincial diesel. So it needs investment in tracks and electrification and it needs a time travelling device to invest 20 years ago. They are buying new DARTs but nothing will free capacity like actually fixing the underlying infrastructure.
They still manually load the seat bookings from a usb. This is asking a lot
So much of the actual failure on both bus and rail seems to come down to employee absences. Where are sackings?
I think they couldn’t be clearer on the reason. Their attitude and communications scream “we don’t give a damn about our passengers” and at its heart that is the main reason the trains are late.
Christ the ignorance in here as to how the actual rail system works is laughable.
Too much main character syndrome.
What’s a train
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