{"id":2077,"date":"2026-05-24T08:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:25:30","slug":"common-sense-prevailing-on-irish-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/common-sense-prevailing-on-irish-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Common sense prevailing on Irish Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spotted this notice on the side of the ticket machine at Kilcock station last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-785x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2078\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-785x1024.jpg 785w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-768x1002.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-1570x2048.jpg 1570w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-1200x1565.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-1980x2582.jpg 1980w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Irish-Rail-notice-scaled.jpg 1963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Irish Rail Notice &#8211; Kilcock Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a rare outbreak of common sense in Ireland, Irish Rail is encouraging those who are not feeling well to alight from the train and await assistance at the nearest station, which (cue all the haters), IMHO, is a better outcome than holding a train at a station waiting for assistance to arrive for 1 passenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London Underground has had similar signs at their stations for years and I am pleased to see Irish Rail is starting to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this notice on the side of the ticket machine at Kilcock station last week. In a rare outbreak of common sense in Ireland, Irish Rail is encouraging those who are not feeling well to alight from the train and await assistance at the nearest station, which (cue all the haters), IMHO, is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}