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Irish Rail enquiries

  • 27-10-2010 10:36pm
    #1
    westtip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭


    Heres a good one for ye - walked aroun Bray Head on Monday from Greystones arriving in Bray about 12.30 pm fancied a pint of decent beer in the Porterhouse on the seafront so thougth woudl ring irish rail enquiries to find out the time of the next Dart back to Bray. got the number from directories ring it up and a voice message says the office is closed today but please go to our website. Of course if I had on line access that is what I would have done in the first place - I got the times from the barman in the pub using his ipod, but my point is this - why woudl national rail enquiries be closed on a bank holiday monday - and as it happens the day with 13,000 people running the dublin marathon - it just make s me think a national travel enquiry service running 247 might be worth considering.


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


    westtip wrote: »
    Heres a good one for ye - walked aroun Bray Head on Monday from Greystones arriving in Bray about 12.30 pm fancied a pint of decent beer in the Porterhouse on the seafront so thougth woudl ring irish rail enquiries to find out the time of the next Dart back to Bray. got the number from directories ring it up and a voice message says the office is closed today but please go to our website. Of course if I had on line access that is what I would have done in the first place - I got the times from the barman in the pub using his ipod, but my point is this - why woudl national rail enquiries be closed on a bank holiday monday - and as it happens the day with 13,000 people running the dublin marathon - it just make s me think a national travel enquiry service running 247 might be worth considering.

    There certainly used to numbers you could call that had the timetables on a pre recorded loop for this purpose; if it's still going that or ring the station in question the next time.


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    that's a bit silly alright.

    BTW the walk over Bray head is much nicer than the one around it ;)


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I know it's not really the point, but btw irish rail have a text service that you can use to find the next few times for trains leaving a particular station. It's usually pretty reliable, and since it's automated it still runs on bank holidays.


  • #5
    Oliver1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Oliver1985


    Call centres are becoming a thing of the past now everyone is getting smart phones thats the way its going :eek:


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