@RailUsersIe

Rail Users Ireland is Ireland's National Rail Users Organisation. Established in 2003 to campaign for improved services and conditions for rail passengers

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Did you buy your ticket online? Did you find the assigned seat didn’t exist, you couldn’t access it or it was occupied by someone who refused to move? If you were left standing for even part of the journey you are entitled to a compensation of the single ticket price paid
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Major delays at Greystones 0654 Greystones/Malahide broke down, once getting to Greystones empty and again on the way towards Bray
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Track works continuing between Blackrock and Seapoint, close to a mile of new track laid
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Some of the works this weekend Platform 3 points at Dún Laoghaire replaced, these have been a source of many delays
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Delays on some services to/from Dublin Heuston due to overrunning engineering works No Luas service Connolly Point Engineering works continuing Howth Howth Junc, Grand Canal Dock Bray & Limerick station
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1000 Heuston Cork +61 minutes due a delay in the Hazelhatch area
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Line closures this weekend Howth Howth Junc Overhead wire renewal Limerick Station Foynes line signalling & connection to network Grand Canal Dock - Bray Track renewal & bridge works Closed Pearse Bray Sat 1930-2100 Athlone Ballinsloe Saturday evening from 1800 only
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0532 Bray Malahide cancelled 0712 Malahide Bray cancelled Delays following an earlier line closure between Pearse and Grand Canal Dock due a vehicle hitting a bridge
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Major delays on DART and Rosslare line service, up to 25 minutes Level crossing at Sandymount struck by vehicle earlier
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Looks like another morning of avoid travel if you can
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0825 Bray Howth starting from Dalkey 0657 Howth Bray cancelled from Dalkey
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Latest update, assuming no further delays at Government/NTA for approval DART+ West 2032 DART+ South West 2034
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0742 Bray Howth +15 due earlier issue at Shankill Knock on delays
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Not unexpected the usual legal posturing has started Interesting the TMS demo Indra were running last month at a trade show was using the Rosslare line, if they have it deployed and in services elsewhere why use the failed Irish Rail code? irishtimes.com/transport/202…

IT firm seeks up to €30m from Irish Rail for scrapped technology project

Irish Rail to tell Oireachtas committee it terminated contract for new traffic management system in July

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No surprises here, unfunded, under resourced and a multi decade backlog of undelivered capital projects irishtimes.com/transport/202…

‘Absolutely chaotic’: Passengers frustrated by overcrowding on Irish public transport

Irish commuters face the daily reality of jam-packed journeys, with some describing services as a public health risk

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0637 Drogheda Pearse +8 0609 Longford Pearse +7 Delays of ~10 minutes on services towards Heuston station Automatic door at Salthill station to platform broken, access not possible without physically pulling doors apart Multiple short trains from Drogheda this morning
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0758 Drogheda Dun Laoghaire has been cancelled
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0728 Tullamore Galway +27 late due technical fault on train at Tullamore
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1744 Malahide Bray stopped at Dun Laoghaire Incident in coach 5 train held in station
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Now 13 late
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More slippage in the new DART fleet, now end of 2027 Hardly a surprise, trains still only allowed out under test conditions, we were to be at mixed traffic and driver training months ago irishtimes.com/transport/202…

New battery-electric trains due to arrive next year in bid to relieve overcrowding on services

French-built units planned for use on Dublin-Drogheda line will allow for reallocation of other trains to different routes

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