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  • 23-03-2008 2:27pm
    #1
    ronano
    Registered Users Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭


    Ignore i found it


    how much will this cost return anyone know?

    i cant find a pricing on irishrail


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  • #2
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,865 ✭✭✭✭January


    http://www.iarnrodeireann.ie/dart/your_ticket/cash_fares.asp

    Fare Category E Adult Single €3.90
    Adult Day Return €7.30
    Adult 7 Day Rolling Rail €27.50
    Adult 3 Day Rolling Rail €16.10
    Child Single €1.65
    Child Day €3.00
    Schoolchild Single* €0.80
    Schoolchild 5 Day* €4.30
    Scholar 5 Day* €18.30


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    How on earth do you get to that page from the irishrail.ie / iarnrodeireann home page these days? There's no Dart option to click on any more that I can see, and the only way I could find to get the page you referred to above is to Google it !


  • #4
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,865 ✭✭✭✭January


    I googled it and copied the link in... no idea how to get to it without googling


  • #5
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    Alun wrote: »
    How on earth do you get to that page from the irishrail.ie / iarnrodeireann home page these days? There's no Dart option to click on any more that I can see, and the only way I could find to get the page you referred to above is to Google it !

    http://www.irishrail.ie/your_ticket/fares_enquiries.asp

    This pages gets you there, Alun. It also has a price list of fares to and from Dublin mainline.


  • #6
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Hamndegger wrote: »
    http://www.irishrail.ie/your_ticket/fares_enquiries.asp

    This pages gets you there, Alun. It also has a price list of fares to and from Dublin mainline.
    I know it exists, you can find it via Google too, but there appears to be no way to navigate to the "Your ticket" page from the current default homepage, i.e. what you see if you just type in www.irishrail.ie into the address bar?

    It looks like there are actually two web sites running quasi in parallel to each other, but with very different looks and content. If you just type in www.irishrail.ie you get a very sparse, 'green' page with little or no information, and certainly no link to any ticket price information that I can see. You'll get the same if you type in www.iarnrodeireann.ie or www.dart.ie (you just get redirected).

    But, if you do a search (on anything) from that page, and click on the "Click here to extend your search to http://www.iarnrodeireann.ie" link at the bottom, you get launched into the old 'orange' CIE themed pages .. a sort of parallel universe, where the "Your ticket" option (along with a few others) does appear on the top menu bar.

    Confusing, or what?


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,234 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    From http://www.irishrail.ie/home/ click on "Company Information" and you get http://www.irishrail.ie/home/company_information.asp then "Fare Enquiries".

    Silly system.


  • #8
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    Victor wrote: »
    From http://www.irishrail.ie/home/ click on "Company Information" and you get http://www.irishrail.ie/home/company_information.asp then "Fare Enquiries".

    Silly system.

    I dare say it's a throwback to the days when they didn't have online booking and as such not as much demand to find out fares online. Remember, most people would be regular travelers and would know their fares anyway, probably booking at stations in the first instance. It isn't that the site content and pages are actually bad, more so the site just needs to be remapped in a more easy to follow fashion.


  • #9
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Victor wrote: »
    From http://www.irishrail.ie/home/ click on "Company Information" and you get http://www.irishrail.ie/home/company_information.asp then "Fare Enquiries".

    Silly system.
    Oh yes, very obvious :confused: I also like the way they don't have any of the Dublin city centre stations in the drop down list for DART fares , but instead have slipped in a "City Centre" option instead just to catch you out. I know it doesn't make any difference, fare wise, but they do list them in the timetable query on the home page, and you can easily overlook it when scanning through the list. Consistency anyone?


  • #10
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,234 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Now only one website!!! Who spoke to them? :)


  • #11
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    The whole website is a joke.
    Love the way the default is 'Search reservations' so 90% of the time you want to check times you end up with a popup box saying reservations are not allowed, unless you change it to 'Timetables only'.
    Then if you're at the next screen looking at a list of time, click 'Alter search' - oh look, it's defaulted in 'Search reservations', there's that popup again.

    The 'real time' suburban screen doesn't really work - the 'Due in' number of minutes is based on what time the system thinks it is (currently 2 minutes fast, so underestimates by that), and trains vanish off the list once their scheduled time has passed (or rather 2 minutes before), even if they're running late.

    And it's very difficult to find information on it. The whole thing's really badly descigned.


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  • #12
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Victor wrote: »
    Now only one website!!! Who spoke to them? :)
    It's still there .. just badly hidden :)

    http://www.iarnrodeireann.ie/home/search.asp

    But I agree, the whole site is a badly designed joke.


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