Tracking the Light Special Post: LUAS Green Line Service Suspension—7 October 2016

Today (7 October 2016), Dublin’s LUAS Green Line was out of service owing to an unspecified disruption.

Mark Healy and I were exploring progress LUAS Cross City works near the St. Stephen’s Green, where we found no-less than four Alstom Citadis trams inoperable and parked.

As of 2:45pm, LUAS was reporting that Green Line service remained suspended.

More recent reports indicate it could be Saturday morning before service resumes.

See: https://www.luas.ie/travel-updates/

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LUAS tram 5002 appears to have a pantograph tied down with a blue cable/securing device.

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I exposed these photos of the stalled trams using my Lumix LX7.

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One comment on “Tracking the Light Special Post: LUAS Green Line Service Suspension—7 October 2016

  1. Lincoln Reed on said:

    Possibly a fault with a section of catenary ? I had noticed some form of jumper wire actually making contact with the rail closest to your camera in the last photo . Curious …

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