@broadsheet_ie You heard about the explosion on the DART at bray? Friend was on it, we’re trying to find info wondering if you had any?
— KaraKara (@KaraKara__) March 6, 2012
There was an explosion in my #DART‘ s driver cabin @Bray. No casulties, thanks God!
— Solon Hosophos (@SolonHosophos) March 6, 2012
apparently a detonator went off in the drivers bag…
Another Twitter BrainF@rt?
Yip – Has a sniff of the “Bang Restaurant is Gutted by fire” story……
People were throwing around bomb stories, my guess is a detonator or some sort of compressed air storage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonator_(railway)
There was a loud explosion and then smoke coming out of the drivers cabin, the driver was injured, not sure what it was though.
It was a detonator in the drivers bag. It went off while he was standing on the platform. Damage to the drivers arm and leg.
http://www.wicklownews.net/Post/2012/3/1366/train-driver-hospitalised-
and eh……..WTF? A detanator?! Was he in Bang restaurant yesterday afternoon?
Yeah they keep detonators for emergencies. If the train breaks down they will place a detonator on the track behind they so any trains coming behind them will be warned by a large bag when they drive over the detonator.
Surely they would have to place the detonator a couple of miles back up the track for this to be effective. Doesn’t make sense. Must be used for some other reason.
yep…true….reliably informed by an ex-British Rail driver.
Wow, archaic and inefficient.
AFAIK The train guard, gets off the stranded train and walks back (i think) 2 kilometres and places the detonators there…. was told years ago by someone who works for irish rail.
This is the 21st century and they are still using detonators to warn trains coming behind them of emergency ahead? Do these guys not have radios or even mobile phones?
Obviously a safe practice in that case…………….. What insurance company agreed to provide cover for carrying “detanators” in a bag by the guy piloting a train with hundreds of passengers on board. I am absolutely baffled by this. Unless they didnt know about the detanators………..
This is CIE folks.
The most incompetent of all the semi-states.
A bit too much Tikka Masalla last night perhaps. Or a feed of Guinness.