New Wexford-Waterford commuter rail & Extended Rosslare-Connollly Services

chamar

In today's People paper (link not available) - from Dec 10th - train will depart Wex at 6.48am arriving in Waterford (via Rosslare Strand) at 8.20am. Return service departs Waterford at 5.34pm to arrive in Wex at 7.19pm. This will continue to Enniscorthy where a connection can be made to Dublin.

There is also to be a new early morning Rosslare Harbour - Dublin train departing at 5.35am which will provide a daily commuter service from Enniscorthy leaving at 6.23am. According to their website it stops in Wexford at 6am.

Station Arr.Dep.PlatformRemarksTrain DestinationService

Rosslare Europort 0535

Rosslare Strand 0540

Wexford 0600

Enniscorthy 0623

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A link to the full timetable would be useful for this thread.

http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/printed_timetable_pdfs/2008/Dublin%20Rosslare%20Europort%2008.pdf

http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/printed_timetable_pdfs/2008/Rosslare%20Europort%20Limerick%2008.pdf

Oh, Look. there they are.


Is 1h35 out 1h35 ret really an appealing service for Wexford-Waterford though? Even with the lousy traffic in Waterford you would still get there alot quicker by car or bus.

fricatus

John R wrote: »

Is 1h35 out 1h35 ret really an appealing service for Wexford-Waterford though? Even with the lousy traffic in Waterford you would still get there alot quicker by car or bus.

Absolutely, and the traffic problems on the northside of Waterford will be relieved by the new bridge and bypass - opening 2009 apparently. Further down the line, New Ross's problems will also be alleviated by a new bridge that's planned to cross the Barrow near Glenmore. Would 45 minutes from Wexford town to somewhere like Genzyme in Waterford be too good to hope for? I don't think so.

We're doing a lot for road transport in this country, but the government don't really seem to be serious about rail. Even in Dublin, where commuter rail makes a lot of sense, progress appears to be painfully slow.

And where's the connectivity with buses. Fair enough, from Plunkett Station into Waterford city centre is a fairly easy walk (except in the wind and rain), but what if you have to get to the IDA industrial park or WIT? You've to walk into town for a bus. The only bus that serves Ferrybank and the station is the Kenneally's one that goes to Ardkeen and Ballygunner, but its schedule is among the great works of fiction because it takes no account of the traffic going through Ferrybank and Ardkeen, the two worst places in Waterford for traffic... I could rant on for hours in this vein... Greens, you won't be separating me from my car for quite a while!

dereko1969

well i'm terribly sorry, was in a rush when i did it, not all of us have the time to make everything nice and pretty when posting. still doesn't change the fact that chamar should have looked at the irish rail website before posting his rant

Ham'nd'egger

dereko1969 wrote: »

well i'm terribly sorry, was in a rush when i did it, not all of us have the time to make everything nice and pretty when posting. still doesn't change the fact that chamar should have looked at the irish rail website before posting his rant

In fairness to him, he got one time out by all of 5 minutes. Some slack to Chamar, please.

dereko1969

his/her original post did not include the timetable information, just presumed that the service would not stop at wexford. the timetable information was edited in after i had provided it. i'll get off my high horse now

Victor

Chill out.

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The service at the moment is only really suitable for those in south west Wexford, who have the car ferry abvailable to them anyway. There is a signalling programme for the line next year, that will hopefully improve things for south east Wexford

chamar

dereko1969 wrote: »

his/her original post did not include the timetable information, just presumed that the service would not stop at wexford. the timetable information was edited in after i had provided it. i'll get off my high horse now

Oh for heaven's sake, I was in the middle of getting the required info when you posted but you beat me to it by 3 mintues - probably because I had the good grace to try and amend the timetable and not ruin the thread but doing your copy/paste job (btw can you fix?)... .........please stop causing aggro there's no need for it.