The Westport to Dublin rail line has been disrupted until further notice following a fire in the undercarriage area near the gearbox of a train.<\/p>\n
A fire developed on the 12:45 Heuston to Westport service between Athlone and Roscommon today, near Glanduff Level Crossing.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Midwest Radio, Irish Rail said the fire was confined to the undercarriage and no part of the passenger area of the train was affected.<\/p>\n
Fire suppression systems were activated and the driver used fire extinguishers to put the fire out.<\/p>\n
As a precaution and due to smoke, the driver arranged for customers to move from the relevant carriage to an adjoining carriage, and the fire services were alerted and attended.<\/p>\n
Bus transfers have been arranged and approximately 100 customers on board have been detrained and brought to the level crossing, where the buses are being dispatched.<\/p>\n
Irish Rail has apologised for the inconvenience cause to customers on the train, as well as those on later trains who may be delayed or require bus transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Westport to Dublin rail line has been disrupted until further notice following a fire in the undercarriage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-388527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}