Irish Rail

[Crankycorner]

Isn’t that just great. Two lads just got on the train wearing shite tracksuits and are now yapping away about some pointless shite.

 

[flyingspud]

The tea is bad too. Maybe the use toilet water or something but I’ve never tasted a combination of boiling water and a Barry’s teabag as bad as what you’d get on the train. AND IT’S €3.50!!!!

And the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the ending of trolley service because of covid, I've always known it was overpriced shite and have never missed it. But fools wanted their tepid tea in a paper cup and a Twix at an extortionate price.

 

[Crankycorner]

And the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the ending of trolley service because of covid, I've always known it was overpriced shite and have never missed it. But fools wanted their tepid tea in a paper cup and a Twix at an extortionate price.

My thoughts entirely. I for one can wait until I get home to have tea and I certainly don’t need a danish that tastes like it’s a week out of date.

 

[omar]

The last time I got the train to Dublin the trolley service only began in Portloaise.

By the time it reached our carriage it was about 20 mins to Hueston. He then ignored 2 or 3 people who wanted something and drove on.

It's as if they want the service to fail.

 

[Matlock]

The last time I got the train to Dublin the trolley service only began in Portloaise.

By the time it reached our carriage it was about 20 mins to Hueston. He then ignored 2 or 3 people who wanted something and drove on.

It's as if they want the service to fail.

I think it is more that they have no incentive for it to succeed. I assume they get paid either way, and that if the trolley service stops running they will be redeployed to another role.

They have a completely different attitude to anyone whose actual income depended on doing a good job!

 

[flyingspud]

Irish Rail don't operate the trolley, it's subbed out. I'd say the staff are paid peanuts. https://www.vision-net.ie/Company-Info/Carriage-Food-Services-Limited-650653

 

[Crankycorner]

The last time I got the train to Dublin the trolley service only began in Portloaise.

By the time it reached our carriage it was about 20 mins to Hueston. He then ignored 2 or 3 people who wanted something and drove on.

It's as if they want the service to fail.

I have to say that’s not my experience. I get the train to Dublin weekly and the trolley is very visible and the staff helpful. I do notice not too many offer something from the trolley however. Cheaper to buy something in the station.

 

[omar]

I have to say that’s not my experience. I get the train to Dublin weekly and the trolley is very visible and the staff helpful. I do notice not too many offer something from the trolley however. Cheaper to buy something in the station.

Go on ya bollocks, you're too busy policing the quiet carriage to notice ?

 

[Crankycorner]

Go on ya bollocks, you're too busy policing the quiet carriage to notice ?

Nobody pays a blind bit of notice to me ?

 

[Crankycorner]

In this week’s installment of Cranky’s Monday Moan there is a group of children on the quiet carriage watching cartoons out loud. At 6am. On a train with plenty of space in the other carriages.