Iarnród Éireann to Improve Journey Time Through Service

T Corolla

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=926

Reduction in early morning services on all routes into heuston and peak departures from Heuston and the Dunboyne service as well

Oliver1985

No need to shout in your thread title:D

T Corolla

I was so exicted I forgot to turn off the caps lock key.

KC61

It would appear that Irish Rail have removed significant chunks of the recovery time that was in the timetable for some of the key trains.

The introduction of a 2 hour 15 minute Galway/Dublin service serving Athenry and Athlone only is something that they simply had to do. They now need a similar one in the evening.

As yet however, the benefits of the Kildare Route Project are still outstanding. The additional 6 minutes added to all services to cover temporary KRP speed restrictions remains in place on all trains.

foggy_lad

The 06:30hrs Cork Heuston service will depart 15 minutes earlier at 06:15hrs calling at Mallow at 06:37hrs and Limerick Junction at 07:11 arriving into Heuston at 08:45 an ideal time for those that need to be in Dublin before 09:00.

this only leaves 15 minutes to get out of the station and into dublin city centre! getting the 145 bus might work if you get out of heuston just as the bus doors are closing:D

T Corolla

foggy_lad wrote: »

this only leaves 15 minutes to get out of the station and into dublin city centre! getting the 145 bus might work if you get out of heuston just as the bus doors are closing:D

You can get the Luas into the city centre. There a very frequent in the morning peak time.

foggy_lad

T Corolla wrote: »

You can get the Luas into the city centre. There a very frequent in the morning peak time.

frequent but painfully slow at times:) can takw more than 20minutes to get to abby street at times depending on the driver.

highlydebased

I wonder does this bout of improvements mean there will be no "new" timetable at the end of the year?

foggy_lad

Neon-Circles wrote: »

I wonder does this bout of improvements mean there will be no "new" timetable at the end of the year?

or is it because the speed restrictions along those lines have been lifted?

KC61

Neon-Circles wrote: »

I wonder does this bout of improvements mean there will be no "new" timetable at the end of the year?

I would expect a new timetable to be introduced next year, probably around February when the relay of the track between Inchicore and Hazelhatch is completed.

That should see the benefits of the four-tracking between Inchicore and Hazelhatch will finally be introduced in terms of scheduled overtaking and also the elimination of the 6 minute buffer that was added when the KRP works started.

One would hope that on the Connolly side that sense will prevail at the same time and that the suburban services will be switched to a clockface pattern.

As I said above - all that appears to be happening is the elimination of recovery time.

I noticed it says all peak time services from the Dunboyne line will now serve Broombridge, is this to accommodate passengers for Drumcondra and Connolly?

KC61

Karsini wrote: »

I noticed it says all peak time services from the Dunboyne line will now serve Broombridge, is this to accommodate passengers for Drumcondra and Connolly?

Well it's more to reinstate stops on existing services (the former Clonsilla-Docklands trains) that were removed recently. It's to accomodate passengers that were using them to/from Broombridge.

Oliver1985

Karsini wrote: »

I noticed it says all peak time services from the Dunboyne line will now serve Broombridge, is this to accommodate passengers for Drumcondra and Connolly?

I think the T.ds out in Broombridge where kicking up cause they were down on services since m3 opened!!