Graeme lives overseas and found himself back home in Ireland for a “very quick trip” recently. He travelled from Cork to Galway by train – a challenge, given that there is no direct service between the capital of the west and the capital of the south – but that is a whole other story. Graeme notes that the journey required two changes – one at Limerick Junction and a second one at Limerick Colbert.
“Everything was running smoothly on the train until we got to Mallow when the train broke down,” he says. An Irish Rail staff member called Dana was charged with keeping passengers informed and made an announcement over the intercom about the delay and spent time “walking up and down the train explaining the problem to any one that asked”, Graeme says. “Over the next hour she talked to me on several occasions and suggested rerouting me through Dublin and then on to Galway.
But I explained to her that I was on a very tight schedule,” he continues. The reason he was under so much pressure is that he was being picked up in Oranmore before being driven to Cong for a meeting and then being driven on to Dublin for another meeting that evening. “Eventually the train limped into Limerick Junction where all the passengers were moved on to other trains.
A special train came from Limerick to pick those passengers going to Limerick but by the time I got there I had missed the connection to Galway,” he writes. [ Are you an Irish Rail commuter impacted by delays or canc.
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