{"id":473078,"date":"2026-05-29T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:02:07","slug":"significant-delays-on-irish-rail-services-following-major-signal-fault-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473078\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Significant delays\u2019 on Irish Rail services following \u2018major\u2019 signal fault \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-rail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-rail\/\">Irish Rail<\/a> services are experiencing delays on Friday morning due to an earlier \u201cmajor\u201d signal fault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Services were suspended for a short time but are now operating again, though passengers have been warned of \u201csignificant delays\u201d and alterations to routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/travel\/2026\/05\/28\/rail-closures-to-disrupt-dublin-travel-plans-over-bank-holiday-weekend\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Significant Dart closures for rail works to disrupt bank holiday travel in DublinOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish Rail says the services currently experiencing delays are: DART +50 minutes on some services; Northern commuter +15 minutes; Maynooth commuter +30 minutes; Phoenix Park Tunnel +10 minutes; Sligo +30 minutes and Belfast\/Enterprise +35 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish Rail says the major signal fault across the Suburban Network which caused the suspension has been rectified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There are also 25-minute delays expected on services between Kildare and Heuston. Earlier, an empty train broke down, blocking the line near Newbridge <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of Irish Rail services are experiencing delays on Friday morning due to an earlier \u201cmajor\u201d signal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,84468,204160,7940,61,60,16455,16458],"class_list":["post-473078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cie","tag-heuston-station","tag-iarnrod-eireann","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rail","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473078","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=473078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}