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Triangular journey on Irish Rail - question

  • 26-10-2007 12:47am
    #1
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭


    If I wanted to go from Cork to Dublin and then, from Dublin to Cork via a small provincial town (SPT), would this be the best way?

    I buy a Cork-Dublin return. I use this to travel from Cork to Dublin. I buy a one-way from Dublin to SPT and go there. I buy a one-way from SPT to one of the towns on the Dublin-Cork route and proceed to Cork. Will Irish Rail let me use the return ticket for this final stage of the journey? (It will be like the standard return trip from Cork to Dublin except that I will be getting on the train a few stops later).

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Zoney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Zoney


    Can't you get two tickets, Cork-SPT return and SPT-Dublin return? Then on the way up, use one ticket before SPT, and the other after SPT. On the way back, one ticket is Dublin-SPT return leg, the other is SPT-Cork return leg?


  • #3
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,491 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    It depends on the SPT. :)

    Certain journeys are allowed, if they are roughly parallel and the same distance. Let us say you want to do Dublin-Cork and come back from Banteer, that would be allow. Or if you wanted to do Dublin-Ballina and return from Sligo, thats allowed.

    Note that on certain lines that the fare matrix is different - generally single track, low frequency services are cheaper. You cannot use two tickets if they are cheaper than one ticket, unless you break your journey. As I understand it, you are allowed break a journey on Intercity trains, but must complete the journey on the same day.

    Want to share with us what the SPT is?


  • #4
    MathsManiac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭MathsManiac


    You might also investigate whether using three of the one-way concession vouchers would be cheaper. It's about €30 per leg, irrespective of origin and destination. Vouchers available to members from credit unions and many workers' unions.


  • #5
    enterprise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭enterprise


    Until you tell us what SPT is we cannot answer you question.


  • #6
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    simu wrote: »
    If I wanted to go from Cork to Dublin and then, from Dublin to Cork via a small provincial town (SPT), would this be the best way?

    I buy a Cork-Dublin return. I use this to travel from Cork to Dublin. I buy a one-way from Dublin to SPT and go there. I buy a one-way from SPT to one of the towns on the Dublin-Cork route and proceed to Cork. Will Irish Rail let me use the return ticket for this final stage of the journey? (It will be like the standard return trip from Cork to Dublin except that I will be getting on the train a few stops later).

    Thanks!

    Just a thought, if the towns are on a Dublin commuter line, you may be able to use one of the commuter services to and from Dublin (I'm thinking especially of Naas-Newbridge-Kildare or even Carlow-Athy at a push) here; they all depart and return to Heuston and then travel on your Cork service as per normal. Pick up a ticket on the platform; you are looking about €10 give or take.

    Remember that Dublin-Cork services won't stop until Thurles and only some services stop at Limerick Junction. This limits the amount of trains that you will be able to get from the SPTs forward and possibly will leave you requiring a lenghty weight for a transfer. It may be quicker to travel back to Dublin and travel on from there, and you can wait in a little comfort to boot.


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  • #7
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Athlone was the third town - I managed it with a Cork-Dublin return and a Dublin-Athlone return.


  • #8
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,859 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    so what exactly did you do? i don't really understand what you tried (and succeeded) to do.


  • #9
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    I travelled from Cork to Dublin, from Dublin to Athlone and from Athlone to Cork on a Cork-Dublin return and a Dublin-Athlone return. I thought at first that I might have to buy more tickets but no.


  • #10
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,859 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    oh right! cool! :D


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