Given how proud they were for doing it and so certain that the line would never reopen that they removed almost all of the bridges, you’d have thought that CIE would want to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the closure of the Harcourt Street railway line.
Archive for December, 2008
31st December 2008 - 50th Anniversary of the Harcourt Street Line closure
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Mortons to take Dublin Bus to court.
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008The fact that Mortons have to go this route really shows how purposeless the European Union is. If a State Agency (not even the State in this case) decides to flout the law, is reported as doing so by its sole shareholder and funder and then has the brazen cheek to force a private company that they forced out of business into the courts to seek compensation and not one other institution of the State does anything about it, there is no law.
If you wanted to be really cynical about the next Lisbon Treaty referendum, you could run a campaign on the following lines:
“Don’t worry about what powers we surrender to Brussels. We’ll not enforce them anyway”.
No doubt Michael “The Perjurer” Carroll will be back in the High Court to lie again, this time for Dublin Bus (The Department of Transport have already stated that they have witnessed your company “flooding” the route with buses. Why haven’t you sued them for libel/slander?)
29th & 30th December 2008
Monday, December 29th, 2008Obviously the gobshites still haven’t learnt that Monday and Tuesday are not Saturday and that real people (i.e. those not employed in taxpayer subsidised “employment”) have to get to work by certain times. Gobshite rail are still operating a Saturday service on working days.
But of course, I forgot, I am supposed to be grateful to gobshite rail for allowing me onto their private property.
An Epic Rail Journey
Sunday, December 28th, 2008Looking at the IR timetables for 2009, anyone up for an afternoon and evening of punishment could do worse than the following:
Depart Heuston Station at 1400 on Cork train as far as Limerick Junction (arrive at 1541)
Depart Limerick Junction at 1546 on train to Enniscorthy (you read that correctly), passing Waterford about 1730, spin into Rosslare Europort at 1850 (reversal required) and arrive at Enniscorthy at 1942
Depart Enniscorthy at 2005 and arrive in Connolly at 2212.
Of course, to get from Heuston to Connolly, you could also use the LUAS or feeder buses! I can also only imagine what the ticket clerk’s reaction would be when you asked for a ticket for this!
Attymon Station
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Looking at the timetable for services to/from Galway, you almost wonder why IR even bother to pretend that there is a station at Attymon. It is served by two trains to Galway in the morning - at 0751 and 0922. In the evening, it is served by two trains from Galway - at 1827 and 2217.
Tell me this lads - you recently bulit a new access road into this station along the route of the erstwhile Loughrea branch. How does the capital expenditure on this get costed against services that don’t exist or is it just another case of one arm of IR doing something and not telling everyone else?
24th December 2008
Thursday, December 25th, 2008Gobshites, since when has 24th December become a public holiday. No advance warning in Maynooth, instead the pack of incompetent inbred rejects that you are left me standing in Maynooth for a train that you motherfucking scumbags had no excuse not to run. For 2009, my New Year’s resolution is a criminal conviction for every IR director.
FUCK OFF AND DIE.
23rd December 2008
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008I observed that the Down platform display at Phoenix Park is stuck showing the next train at 2015. This was when the 1739 ex Pearse was passing through.
Aer Lingus announces recommencement of Shannon Heathrow flights
Monday, December 22nd, 2008Amazing what a little bit of interest from Michael O’Leary can do.
We wish to apologise for the delay -
Saturday, December 20th, 2008This is due to gross incompetence at every level of our organisation.
CIE losses at €39m
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008When the rest of the world is expanding public transport, Dickweed Dempsey tells CIE to close them down to save money. Can I suggest that you drop the unconstitutional zero tolerance ticket checks at exit points and sack the staff involved. That way you will save money.