Dublin train has no toilets
October 1978
A DELEGATION representing passengers who use the 7.20 a.m. train from Drogheda to Dublin met with the C.I.E. chairman this week.
They took a survey carried out earlier this week, which they consider proves that commuters are getting a bad deal.
Mr. James Gavin, Mr. Peter Flood and Ms Peg Shortt represented the 25-30 people who use the train each morning.
Said Mr. Gavin: “The conditions are a scandal, it’s one of the old push-pull trains, there are no toilet facilities, no racks, it’s equipped with bucket seats which are lined up against the window and catch any draughts.
“The seats fill with water on a wet day when conditions are particularly intolerable — you’ve nowhere to put your coat and if you take it off you have to carry it on your arm, and then you run the risk of being sandwiched in between two people with wet clothes. Reading the paper is out of the question entirely. “
Mr. Gavin and Mr. Flood carried out a survey on Monday into the facilities being afforded to passengers on other sections of the “commuter belt” which stretches from Dundalk to Greystones. Commuters from Drogheda have to pay £5.25 to £6 per week. C.l.E. has repeatedly refused to grant them commuter ticket facilities.