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Timetable changes & disruption

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Buffman


    Roadworks will mean a good few commuters will have to walk further for the bus in Celbridge next week. I'm guessing the Hazelhatch railway station feeder bus will be taking a similarly diverted route.

    http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/General-News/Diversion-Route-67/
    Friday, October 25, 2013
    Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to roadworks taking place in Celbridge, the Main Street will be closed from Tuesday 29th to Wednesday Thursday 31st October 2013 from 08:00hrs to 18:00hrs.
    As a result Route 67 will be diverted as follows;
    Route 67 Towards Maynooth
    Divert left from the Liffey Bridge and operate via the Clane Rd. (R403) turn right at the traffic lights and follow through to Shackleton Rd. and turn Left at the traffic lights (Tesco) and back on to route on the Maynooth Rd.

    Route 67 Towards Merrion Square
    Buses will turn right from the Maynooth Rd. on to Shackleton Rd., (Tesco) and follow through to the traffic light junction with the Clane Rd. (R403) and turn left and follow back down to the Main Street and right back on to route at the Liffey Bridge.

    FYI, if you move to a 'smart' meter electricity plan, you CAN'T move back to a non-smart plan.



  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor




  • Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭nd001


    Hi just curious does anybody know why there was a enterprise train stopped on the northbound platform in Balbriggan at about half 12 today I presume it's out of the norm


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    nd001 wrote: »
    Hi just curious does anybody know why there was a enterprise train stopped on the northbound platform in Balbriggan at about half 12 today I presume it's out of the norm
    It could have been anything. It seems wheel slip was a particular problem in the Dublin area on Tuesday. It may have been that the train ahead of it was running late.


  • Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭nd001


    Victor wrote: »
    It could have been anything. It seems wheel slip was a particular problem in the Dublin area on Tuesday. It may have been that the train ahead of it was running late.

    Ye i was just curious it was there for a good ten minutes thought someone might have been in the know


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  • Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭nd001


    Hi


    Just have seen on the bus eireann website that a number of routes are to be changed/combined. I see that route 182 drogheda-ardee is being combined with route 177. Route 177 from Monaghan no longer goes to dublin instaead you can change in drogheda. In other words every second bus will do drogheda to monaghan with the first doing drogheda to ardee. This means that monaghan will only have direct intercity connections to dublin/airport

    Also route 189 which was drogheda to clogherhead has been extended to ashbourne via duleek. In other words you will have a service from ashbourne to clogherhead via drogheda

    Route 190 drogheda- laytown has been combined with route 188 drogheda to navan/athboy. I see every second bus will go to navan and the other will go to athboy. All of these buss will go via north road drogheda to serve the hospital and then over to slane

    What do people think of these changes. It certainly makes connections around the louth/meath area better but will it over complicate the timetable and potentially make sticking to timetables harder.

    Any opinions. Feel free to look at the webiste to make sense of it


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,797 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    nd001, they are fairly major changes all right but not everyone is heading to Dublin to be honest and to have a route that serves the regional hospital in Drogheda is a move forward.
    You also have to admit, it is slightly perverted to be spending 15billion a year on a medical system, and how many 100s on a transport "web of services" (calling it a system or network would be giving it too much credit), all financed from the public purse - yet the public nor politicans till now never saw it as a necessity that one would actually feed into the other as a matter of routine - which led to even MORE money being spent on taxis to ferry vulnerable people about parallel to bus routes that just didn go where they were needed. And they'd be the same folks with a bus pass most of the time so its not as if they wouldnt take the bus if there was one to take!

    I also see the 175 Cavan Monaghan bus is now rejigged to go via Cavan General Hospital on all journeys as well as Cavan College which is a similar move to actually extract a bit of value and usefulness out of the bus service and it will actually connect (if not late) to the bus then going to Drogheda.
    Till now it was possible to get from Cavan station to the Matter hospital in Dublin hourly all morning noon and evening, and by public transport to any other hospital up there YET you couldnt get to the actual hospital in Cavan a few km out in the countryside at all without getting a lift or a taxi for that last few km.

    Not sure now what the knock on effect is to Clones-Monaghan services as this timetable isnt updated.


  • Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭nd001


    I agree with you mutchkian I actually think this is the most thought put into a timetable from bus eireann in a long time. The fact that the majority of routes will go past the lourdes in drogheda or relatively close is great for not only louth but surrounding counties. Sure arnt they bringing patients by ambulance all the way from parts of monaghan to drogheda. This timetable change will be good for patients and family getting to drogheda. I'm sure there are many other pros and cons in the changes but I'm only familiar with drogheda tbh


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,282 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I read this on a poster while getting a DART at Seapoint this morning.

    There will be no rail services between Pearse and Dun Laoghaire next weekend due to major engineering works which will take place between Saturday 30th of November and Sunday 1st of December 2013.

    Details posted here.

    http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4428&p=116&n=237


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that a Saturday Timetable will operate on all bus routes (excluding Nitelink/Tours) on the following dates in December, Tuesday 24th, Friday 27th, Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st .

    See more at: http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/General-News/Saturday-Timetables-During-Christmas-Period/#sthash.ShGxuAun.dpuf


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  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Cork Kent station closed - partial roof collapse - station closed for the night and no services Mallow-Cork-Cobh/Midleton.

    Severe delays to Enterprise services and some delays to other Irish Rail services.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,654 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    Currently no services to/from Waterford to Dublin or Limerick J due to another landslide at the station. Bus transfers to/from Kilkenny and Carrick.

    Services returning to stations as risks of further landslide are preventing IE leaving passengers walk to LC near by. Platforms closed and damage to rails by rocks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    New improved timetable from Waterford/Tramore-Dublin/Airport.

    http://jjkavanagh.ie/images/stories/timetables/New%20Waterford%20Timetable.pdf
    WATERFORD TO DUBLIN AIRPORT SERVICE

    CHANGES FROM MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2014

    PLEASE NOTE THAT FROM MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2014 OUR WATERFORD TO DUBLIN AIRPORT TIMETABLE WILL CHANGE.

    WE HAVE ADDED PROVIDED FASTER JOURNEY TIMES BETWEEN WATERFORD AND DUBLIN CITY/AIRPORT.

    ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING SERVICES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE WATERFORD TO DUBLIN AIRPORT SERVICE TIMETABLE.

    FROM WATERFORD

    12.30 PM SERVICE (11.55 AM FROM TRAMORE) NO LONGER IN SERVICE.

    20.30 PM SERVICE (20.00 FROM TRAMORE)

    FROM DUBLIN AIRPORT

    00.30 AM SERVICE NOW LEAVES AT THE EARLIER TIME OF 23.40 (OO.OO EX DUBLIN CITY)

    22.45 PM SERVICE (23.15 EX DUBLIN CITY) HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SERVICE.

    15.40 SERVICE FROM DUBLIN AIRPORT WILL NOW LEAVE AT 16.00 PM (16.30 EX DUBLIN CITY )

    KILKENNY

    NEW SERVICE BETWEEN KILKENNY AND DUBLIN VIA CARLOW DEPARTING FROM KILKENNY`S ORMONDE ROAD

    AT 05.15 AM RETURNING FROM DUBLIN CITY AT 17.45 PM.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,654 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    FROM WATERFORD

    12.30 PM SERVICE (11.55 AM FROM TRAMORE) NO LONGER IN SERVICE.

    20.30 PM SERVICE (20.00 FROM TRAMORE)

    FROM DUBLIN AIRPORT

    00.30 AM SERVICE NOW LEAVES AT THE EARLIER TIME OF 23.40 (OO.OO EX DUBLIN CITY)

    22.45 PM SERVICE (23.15 EX DUBLIN CITY) HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SERVICE.

    15.40 SERVICE FROM DUBLIN AIRPORT WILL NOW LEAVE AT 16.00 PM (16.30 EX DUBLIN CITY )

    Very poor timetable and playing into BE's hands.

    The 20.30 ex Waterford was pointless, they should of had the departure around 3.00 to meet flights departing in the morning but BE took that up when they started.

    00.30 service from Airport was good but should of being pushed back to 01.00, to tight for many inbound flights.


  • Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭joegriffinjnr


    TRAVEL: Bus Eireann has cancelled ALL Limerick City Services. Expressway services are also cancelled.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,797 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    A Crossdoney-based bus company is ending its Cavan to Longford service next month, March 15th. Whartons Travel say the daily route, which has been running for over 40 years, has been a loss making service for almost a decade and they can no longer keep it going.
    http://www.northernsound.ie/news/popular-bus-route-to-end-next-month/

    A great example of how not to run a service.
    The only timetable for this service available online was an obscure county longford social information website. The operator themselves never ever mentioned the existance of a service on their website (which promotes their soccer trips to England) and I only knew of its existance thanks to reading the old Dept of Transport list of licenced services which still didnt give an indication of frequency or timetable (which aparantly is part of the licencing, but sure why would the public need to know such details).

    We even had people on boards looking to get to places on the route and our only advice to them was to get a taxi as it wasnt clear if the area was served by a bus.
    Well, its isnt now!


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    https://twitter.com/
    Home | News Centre | Red Line Service Disruption see news
    Red Line Service Disruption see news

    Date 07/04/2014
    Time: 8.50am

    Luas Red LIne Disruption.

    Luas Red Line is running at the moment only between Saggart/Tallaght and Smithfield.

    There is no service between Smithfield and Connolly/ The Point.

    Luas Tickets are valid on Dublin Bus for the duration of the disruption.

    Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused

    The Luas Green Line is operating normally.

    Regards

    Luas Customer Care
    Tel:1800 300 604
    Email: info@luas.ie
    Website: www.luas.ie
    Twitter: @Luas
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/luas

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0407/607198-woman-dies-after-collision-between-luas-and-car/
    Woman dies after collision between Luas and car in Dublin

    A female pedestrian in her 30s has died in a road crash between a car and a Luas tram in Dublin.

    The incident happened at the junction of Jervis Street and Abbey Street Upper at 8:45am this morning.

    The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

    The road is closed and garda forensic collision investigators are carrying out an examination of the area.

    The Luas line is closed between Smithfield and Connolly stops.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,282 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Easter Weekend Distruption - Irish Rail
    Easter Weekend Service Arrangements - No train service between Connolly/Howth/Malahide on Easter Sunday 20th April

    09 April 2014

    Easter Bank Holiday Weekend April 18th - 21st

    Customers travelling over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend are advised to check times before travelling, through the journey planner above or go to our timetable section.

    Service Arrangements - Sunday 20th April

    Due to major engineering works between Connolly and Malahide there will be no train service between Connolly/Howth/Malahide on Sunday 20th April.

    DART - The following DART stations will be closed - Portmarnock, Clongriffin, Howth, Sutton, Bayside, Howth Jct. & Donaghmede, Kilbarrack, Raheny, Harmonstown, Killester and Clontarf Road.
    • Dublin Bus will accept all valid rail tickets on scheduled services between closed DART stations and city centre.
    • DART services will operate to/from Greystones - Connolly stations only.
    Dundalk/Drogheda - Services will operate to/from Malahide station with onward bus transfers to Connolly/Pearse stations.

    Belfast - Services will operate to/from Drogheda station with onward bus transfers to Connolly station.

    Maynooth/Longford/Sligo - Services will operate as normal but customers are advised to check times through the journey planner above or go to our timetable section.

    Rosslare - Services will operate as normal but customers are advised to check times through the journey planner above or go to our timetable section.

    Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail apologise for the inconvenience caused by these necessary works.

    http://www.irishrail.ie/easterweekend


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,483 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    http://citylink.ie/index.php/routes-a-timetables/service-changes

    NEW Extra eireagle & Express Departures commencing Monday 28th April 2014

    Citylink are pleased to announce that from Monday 28th April 2014 we will introduce new extra departures to our eireagle & Dublin City/Airport Express services.

    There will be additional eireagle departures from Galway direct to Dublin Airport at 03:15hrs and 04:15hrs arriving at Dublin Airport at 05:45 & 06:45 respectively. These extra departures will operate every day. Journey time to Dublin Airport is only 2 1/2 hours. These extra departures are ideal for people with early flights from Dublin Airport. These additional departures bring to 19 the number of daily services operated by Citylink in each direction between Galway and Dublin Airport.

    We will also have new additional departures from Dublin Airport and Dublin City to Galway. The new times are 08:15 from Dublin Airport, 08:45 from Dublin City arriving in Galway at 11:15 and 10:15 from Dublin Airport, 10:45 from Dublin City arriving in Galway at 13:15.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,483 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    http://dublincoach.ie/news.php
    New services on M7 Route from April 11th

    We are adding 2 new late-night services to our M7 route from April 11th:
    • New Dublin - Ennis service departing at 23:45
    • New Ennis - Dublin service departing at 01:00

    We have listened to your feedback and we are delighted to announce two new services on the M7 route:
    23:45 departure from Dublin to Ennis

    If you are travelling to Dublin for a concert or event, our new late-night service from Dublin will give you ample time to make the return service back home.
    01:00 departure from Ennis to Dublin

    To facilitate travellers on early morning flights from Dublin Airport, we are introducing a new service departing Ennis at 1am to Dublin City, which will connect with our N7 service to the Airport at Red Cow at 04:10



    Changes to M7 Service Scheduled Times from April 11th

    Two of our scheduled services are changing from April 11th, resulting in earlier departure times at all stops on the route:
    • The 4:30 service from Ennis will leave at 4:00am (30 minutes earlier)
    • The 5:45 service from Ennis will leave at 5:30am (15 minutes earlier)

    See our M7 timetable page for full schedule details.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch




  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Extra commuter services for after one direction concerts next weekend

    http://www.irishrail.ie/fare-and-tickets/this-way-for-one-direction

    22:35hrs Drumcondra - Maynooth
    22:50hrs Drumcondra - Maynooth
    23:05hrs Drumcondra - Maynooth
    23:05hrs Connolly - Drogheda
    23:21hrs Drumcondra - Maynooth
    23:55hrs Connolly - Drogheda


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,282 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I heard there was disruption at Booterstown DART Station yesterday when there was trespassers on the line which resulted in Southbound train services being delayed for 10 minutes. It took me about to wait for the train at Sandymount for 10 minutes and another fifteen minutes to get from there to Blackrock yesterday evening.

    I also had seen 2 security guards from Brinks Allied on my train home as well and they got off at Booterstown. Is that usually normal in an incident when trespassers cross the railway tracks at all?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,797 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    I see that the Cork-Ballincollig (-Macroom) service has been re-jigged to have clockface timings every half hour from 6.30am till just before midnight between Ballincollig and Cork and onward to Carraigaline (/Crosshaven), and now runs under the number 220 - and it has a snazzy new timetable layout.
    http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1411138688-220.pdf

    The previous situation was chaotic with an inpenetrabile combination of routings through places that only a local with generations of local geographical knowledge could follow.
    (and it lives on in whats left of the 233 Cork-Macroom service, but it can now be ignored by the majority of users who can use the easy to follow 220)
    http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1410276404-233.pdf


  • Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭ryanch09


    Major revisions to the Sligo city service routes with 2 routes S1 and S2 replacing the 472, 473, 478 and 478A routes and with service frequency increases of every 30 minutes on route S1 and every hour on route S2

    Comes into effect on Sunday 5th October

    More info here: http://www.buseireann.ie/news.php?id=1598&month=Oct


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭cython


    No DART or Northern Commuter services north of Connolly this AM due to overhead wire damage:

    https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/518995909137686528

    Additionally, Maynooth services are hit by delays due to a tree on the line between Leixlip and Maynooth (since moved) that obstructed services in getting out to do runs in (announcement on the service I'm on).


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,483 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Route 243, Cork – Mallow – Buttevant – Newmarket, effective 20 October 2014


    Bus Éireann wishes to advise customers that as part of the ongoing review of services in County Cork, Route 243, Cork – Mallow – Buttevant – Newmarket will be changed on and from Monday, 20 October 2014.
    • The 07.10 Newmarket/Mallow service (Mon/Fri) is advanced to depart Newmarket 07.00, Kanturk 07.09, arr Mallow 07.30. Service will no longer serve Ballymaquirke Cross.
    • The 07.15 Charleville/Cork service (Mon/Fri) is advanced to depart Charleville 07.05, Ballyhea 07.15, Buttevant 07.25, New Two Pot House 07.30, Mallow 07.35, Mallow, Old Cork Road 07:36, Rathduff 07.50, Cork Arrive 08.20.
    • The 10.45 Mallow/Cork service (Mon-Fri) will no longer serve Waterloo and Blarney (Station Cross).
    • The 13.40 Newmarket/Cork (Mon/Fri) service will no longer serve Ballymacquirke Cross.
    • The 15.15 Doneraile/Cork service (Mon/Thurs Only) will now serve New Two Pot House at 15.22.
    • The 16.00 Doneraile/Cork service (Friday Only) will now serve New Two Pot House at 16.07.
    • 17.30 Cork/Newmarket service (Mon/Fri) will no longer serve Blarney (Filling Stn); Waterloo and Ballymacquirke Cross
    • All services to Kanturk and Newmarket and return will no longer serve Ballymacquirke Cross
    • The pick-up/set-down points for the service in Kanturk will be on the Newmarket Road opposite/at the Amenity Park.

    Friday, 10th October, 2014


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Tree on the Northern Commuter line this morning. Trains stopping in Malahide. You're left to fend for yourselves as Dublin Bus are jammers. Huge queues.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,565 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Complete shambles this morning, standard of information again a disgrace.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    I love the zero volume extremely muffled announcements in the carriage. You wouldn't have a clue what was going on if it wasn't for their Twitter updates. Unfortunately some folk don't use it so would have no idea at all.


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