Passengers forced to cross railway tracks to exit station due to locked gate

At least 33 passengers — mostly secondary school students — who alighted from five trains that stopped at Navan Road Parkway found themselves trapped on Platform 2 and chose to cross the railway tracks in order to exit the station. File picture: Larry Cummins 

Iarnród Éireann has been asked to review its monitoring of unmanned stations following an incident where its staff were unaware for 90 minutes that groups of passengers were forced to cross railway tracks to exit the train station at Navan Road Parkway.

The Railway Accident Investigation Unit (RAIU) has issued a series of safety recommendations over the incident on January 31, 2025, which resulted in passengers being prevented from leaving or accessing one of the platforms at Navan Road Parkway because of a locked gate.