bring a bicycle onto a train ?????????

reverenddave

hey all

i'm starting to cycle to college tomorrow morning (From Kent station Cork) and i'm going to have to bring my bike on the train in the morning (Cobh-Cork)
but i will be leaving it up there almost every night
does anyone know do they charge for this ?????

Cookie_Monster

0, though note time restrictions

Irishrail.ie wrote:

Bicycles on Commuter and DART Trains

Bicycles are allowed on Commuter and Dart services between 10:00 and 15:30 and after 19:00 Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. Customers are asked to stay with their bicycles in the vestibules at all times and ensure they do not allow their bicycles to become a nuisance to other passengers. The provision of bicycles on Commuter and Dart services is at the discretion of station staff. Bicycles that are folded and covered can be carried on all Commuter and Dart services with no time restrictions.

If you are travelling with your bicycle please note the following.

* Customers should dismount from bicycles when they are in the stations on the platforms
* Customers should use accessibility ramps and lifts rather than stairs within stations
* Customers should stay with their bicycles onboard trains
* Unaccompanied children cannot bring bicycles onto trains
* No motorised bicycles are allowed on trains
* No bicycles with attached trailers are allowed on trains

http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/bicycle_information.asp

smacl

Bicycles on Commuter and DART Trains

Bicycles are allowed on Commuter and Dart services between 10:00 and 15:30 and after 19:00 Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. Customers are asked to stay with their bicycles in the vestibules at all times and ensure they do not allow their bicycles to become a nuisance to other passengers. The provision of bicycles on Commuter and Dart services is at the discretion of station staff. Bicycles that are folded and covered can be carried on all Commuter and Dart services with no time restrictions.

By discretion, they mean whim. If they're in a good mood, and the train is half empty, you might be lucky. The problem with this, and also the intercity services, is that it is not a dependable service and difficult to plan for. Best you can do is drop down to the station in advance, and ask the staff what the story is. I'm not sure that many of them know that Irish rail even have a web site.

OT, but I was trying to book my bike on the Dublin Wexford train recently based on the following from their web site;

Bicycle Information
All our Intercity trains have bicycles carriage facilities. On the Dublin to Cork and Dublin to Belfast trains they are located in a storage area separate from the passenger compartment of the train. On all other Intercity routes the bicycle spaces are within the passenger compartment. These routes are restricted to three bicycles per service. It should be noted that customers can reserve their bike online at www.irishrail.ie and there is a fee associated with bringing a bicycle onto an Intercity train.

Regardless of the train selected, or travel date, the online booking always gives the following, and then tells you there are no bicycle places available. If you just turn up at an off peak time, you have a good chance of getting your bike on at no charge. Reported this to Irish rail a few weeks back but no response.

Lumen

Maybe bring a wheelie bin liner. If it's in a bag it's not a bicycle.

studiorat

The Dublin to Cork doesn't have a bicycle carriage facilities. It's the same van that they carry rubbish and various trolleys in. Yet they still see fit to charge you €8 for it.

Re: Cobh to Cork. A workmate of mine does it daily with a folding bike. Sometimes he's told he can't bring it on, then he has to correct them saying you can, he checked with Irish Rail before he bought the bike.

This morning he was told that he didn't have to fold it up any more since two weeks ago!! Yet they seem to have removed the bike racks.

I travel Irish Rail every week. The staff really don't have a clue what's going on, a classic case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing.

studiorat

smacl wrote: »

Regardless of the train selected, or travel date, the online booking always gives the following, and then tells you there are no bicycle places available. If you just turn up at an off peak time, you have a good chance of getting your bike on at no charge. Reported this to Irish rail a few weeks back but no response.

Oh Yeah. You just ignore that and keep clicking it eventually works:rolleyes:

And a return journey with a bike going only one way! Forgeddaboutit!

cython

smacl wrote: »

By discretion, they mean whim. If they're in a good mood, and the train is half empty, you might be lucky. The problem with this, and also the intercity services, is that it is not a dependable service and difficult to plan for. Best you can do is drop down to the station in advance, and ask the staff what the story is. I'm not sure that many of them know that Irish rail even have a web site.

OT, but I was trying to book my bike on the Dublin Wexford train recently based on the following from their web site;



Regardless of the train selected, or travel date, the online booking always gives the following, and then tells you there are no bicycle places available. If you just turn up at an off peak time, you have a good chance of getting your bike on at no charge. Reported this to Irish rail a few weeks back but no response.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/62453/154414.jpg

See I suspect the issue here is that despite the fact that Dublin-Wexford used to be (and by all accounts still should be) a full intercity service (back in the days of the orange trains/carriages), it seems like almost every train in use on that line now is a "Commuter" one, so there are no spaces provided for bikes. That whole thing (commuter trains for an intercity service, not the bikes specifically) has bugged the hell out of me for years at this point, as there is no way that a journey between Dublin and potentially Rosslare classes as a bloody commute!

Captain Havoc

I used to get the train to work and then cycle home before I got my license. They were pretty cool about the bike but one fecker wanted me to pay. I just checked the price of a day return to Dublin from Kilkenny, €37. It's only €26 in petrol and I get to have my own car with me.

ROK ON

Cobb to Patrick St is 20km.
For all the hassle of the train it would take you maybe any hour each way on the bike.

Try it a few days.

reverenddave

Thanks for all the replies i'm going to get a lift up there with my bicyle tomorrow night and leave it locked in the train station

****ers wouldn't leave me on with it this morning

ROK ON wrote: »

Cobb to Patrick St is 20km.
For all the hassle of the train it would take you maybe any hour each way on the bike.

Try it a few days.

i'll give it a go in a few weeks, i'm just getting back into cycling after almost a year of nothing, my main worry in cobh is the hills on the way out of here i'll be puffing and panting after about 50metres

dastardly00

smacl wrote: »

............Regardless of the train selected, or travel date, the online booking always gives the following, and then tells you there are no bicycle places available. If you just turn up at an off peak time, you have a good chance of getting your bike on at no charge. Reported this to Irish rail a few weeks back but no response.

I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago when I was trying to bring my new bike from Kilkenny to Galway. I tried to book my bike online to go on the train service from Kilkenny - Dublin and then Dublin - Galway. But it always said there were no bicycle places available :mad:

I tried different times/dates but still no available places. And I've been on those trains quite a bit and I've seen the bike racks in the carriages!