Rail services have resumed following repairs, which caused \u201cmajor disruption\u201d to train routes through northside Dublin.<\/p>\n
Damage to an overhead line at Raheny was projected to impact up to 20,000 commuters on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Irish Rail advised customers after 1pm that the repairs had been completed.<\/p>\n
It said northside Dart and Northern Commuter services were resuming, as well as Enterprise trains to and from Belfast.<\/p>\n
It warned some delays would continue, with these services \u201creturning to normal throughout the afternoon\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Irish Rail said full services would be in place for the late afternoon and evening peak, as well as extra trains for the Katy Perry concert at Malahide Castle on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
It said: \u201cWe apologise for the inconvenience and thank customers for their patience and understanding during this disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irish Rail spokesman Barry Kenny said the damage arose before 8:30pm on Tuesday, but it had deferred repairs into the early hours of Wednesday as there were 20,000 people at a gig in Malahide.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI think it was the right decision to defer the start of the repair works, which would have shut the entire line.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had one track open to get those people home from Malahide.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think potentially we would have had public safety issues if we weren\u2019t able to clear and help move thousands of people from Malahide after the concert last night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail services have resumed following repairs, which caused \u201cmajor disruption\u201d to train routes through northside Dublin. Damage to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-516427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516427","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=516427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}