Bray

"I realised why people were screaming for no more passengers to board as the temperature felt it was well exceeding 50C"

"I noticed when we stopped at the next stop there was no room for anyone to board and people were trying to communicate that there was no air on the carriage. We apologise to all customers whose day was delayed or disrupted by the incident at Bray, and we will be investigating it fully.” Immediately passengers started to jump from the carriage. "We entered the last carriage as I thought it would be the most vacant. "When we went to board the first train, it was overloaded with passengers. He said: "At approximately 13:40, I boarded a train at Salthill-Monkstown with my mother, who is 72, and my two sons.

Company notes 'chaotic' scenes and line closure of more than two hours after some people left trains and went onto track.

However, once the doors were forced open and there were people on the line, then it was standard procedure that services should stop, he said. “It was a horrible experience for people”, he acknowledged. And it also happened to the Dart behind as a result because there were people on the track.

Humera Tierney travelled to Bray with her seven-year-old and three-year-old sons Harrison and Hunter to see the air show. They were returning home to Sutton in ...

"I put my son beside the window so that he could breathe easier. "We were the first train to depart from Bray that afternoon. "They were expecting us to jump off a five-foot gap. "I got on a train at 2.30pm yesterday afternoon and got off it at 4pm," he said. Iarnród Éireann said passengers on a train awaiting a clear platform "forced doors open and walked onto the track". The incident coincided with the final day of the Bray Air Display. After an hour and 20 minutes, the doors on the train were opened for air and the passengers were given water to share.

Irish Rail has apologised to customers who were “caught up in a very distressing situation” while travelling on the Bray service yesterday afternoon.

It was getting very distressing for a lot of the older people and the children on the train, it was awful for them really. “I don’t even know if the air con was turned on or not because it was just so hot. The driver told us that because doors had been opened that this train was going nowhere. I handed out the drinks in my bag to people around me because it was getting so hot.” And once those people did that and were on the track, we obviously couldn’t operate any train in or out of Bray Station until it was confirmed that the track was clear. No windows to open. It was just so uncomfortable,” he told RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne. Others then decided, because of the delay and indeed because of genuine concern, to leave the train. No air con, people having panic attacks. “In terms of the warmth on board, the various trains involved would have had either openable windows or air conditioning. The railway company was forced to suspend services as a result. No further details are available at this time.”

Passengers' decision to force open the doors of a DART near Bray yesterday turned a five-minute delay into two hours - Iarnród Éireann.

“Out of the fact they were facing an extended delay. It was very warm. “Ultimately because we had an uncontrolled situation and - as you say it is very visible from those images - a very high number of people on the track, the line was closed for over two hours,” he said. “Again, a very, very busy one and ultimately, we had significant numbers of people from two trains on the tracks, meaning the trains couldn’t move.” “Obviously, they saw the delay was lengthening. “Bray Air Show Day is obviously one of the busiest days of the year on the DART,” he said.

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