Consuming alcoholic beverages on the train?

n97 mini

What's the story now with consuming your own alcoholic beverages on the train? Say if you bought one or two expensive bottles of beer?

Would you be told you can only drink the quality beers like warm Heino from the snack car?

SteelyDanJalapeno

n97 mini wrote: »

What's the story now with consuming your own alcoholic beverages on the train? Say if you bought one or two expensive bottles of beer?

Would you be told you can only drink the quality beers like warm Heino from the snack car?

Meself and a buddy had a 6 pack of Bulmers with us on the way back from Croker Sunday, nobody said a word to us.

Judgement Day

n97 mini wrote: »

What's the story now with consuming your own alcoholic beverages on the train? Say if you bought one or two expensive bottles of beer?

Would you be told you can only drink the quality beers like warm Heino from the snack car?

What's a snack car? Of course you can bring your own - as long as it's not Dutch Gold - and you would be insane to pay Rail Gourmet's outrageous prices.

adamski8

n97 mini wrote: »

What's the story now with consuming your own alcoholic beverages on the train? Say if you bought one or two expensive bottles of beer?

Would you be told you can only drink the quality beers like warm Heino from the snack car?

you thinking of going on a beer tasting tour of ireland or something ?

SteelyDanJalapeno

Judgement Day wrote: »

What's a snack car? Of course you can bring your own - as long as it's not Dutch Gold - and you would be insane to pay Rail Gourmet's outrageous prices.

:mad::mad: Whats wrong with dutch?

n97 mini

Judgement Day wrote: »

What's a snack car?

What the car with the hatch that sells snacks called? Or are they gone?

I heard rumours that you have to buy their beer, that you can't bring your own?

mickydoomsux

The general rule seems to be that if it isn't specifically mentioned on the timetable, you can drink your own alcohol on any service as long as you aren't absolutely bladdered and causing disruption.

patrickbrophy18

I remember having a Guinness on the way back from Newry on the Enterprise. Lovely combination!:D

coylemj

A bunch of us went up to the Glenans sailing school near Westport one weekend many years ago. According to the timetable, the train we planned to take back to Dublin on Sunday wasn't going to have a snack/dining car so on the way to the railway station on Sunday evening we went into an off-licence and stocked up with a few six-packs for the journey.

When we got on board the train we discovered that there was a bar after all, it was unscheduled but the carriage had to go back to Dublin for the Monday morning train to Galway or Cork so they hitched it up to our train and put a barman on board.

We started on the takeaways and when that ran out we hit the bar. By the time we arrived in Heuston station, all they had left in the bar was bottles of Bass!

corktina

TiltedBrain wrote: »

:mad::mad: Whats wrong with dutch?

EVERYTHING. M&S and (yes!) SuperValu are doing nice bottled proper real ale now...really nice stuff

macgrub

I've had a tin or two of beer on the train (Dublin-Maynooth line) several times when traveling home from Dublin, reading a book if I'm on my own or with my girlfriend.
If I do decide to have a beer, I try not to make it too obvious. The train I usually ride on is a commuter train, so I make it my business not to sit in the seats with the tables, rather I choose the double ones behind them.
Don't have empty cans on the floor, Don't be too loud, Don't bother other passengers. If you're not bothering anyone, why should they bother you?

iPlop

TiltedBrain wrote: »

:mad::mad: Whats wrong with dutch?

It's piss

mickydoomsux

macgrub wrote: »

If you're not bothering anyone, why should they bother you?

Precisely, that's the attitude i take when i'm working anyway.

I've had people complain about other passengers drinking on trains and explained to them that if the person in question isn't causing any problems and is keeping it to themselves then i don't see the need to hassle them.

mikemac

The only time I've heard it's not allowed is the Dublin - Kilkenny train. Too many issues with stag/hen parties

foggy_lad

There are some trains usually in Sunday where alcohol consumption is not permitted. On 3 of the 4 Waterford-Dublin trains on Sunday this is the case:)

Baron de Robeck

Travelling on the 13.00 Sligo-Dublin during the week was an experience I would rather not repeat nor would most of the others on the train.

A small group of lads were allowed board in Sligo in an obviously intoxicated state (one of them regularly told us all in a loud voice that he had been on the whiskey since 8.30 that morning!). They were desruptive throughout the journey as they continued to drink and throw the contents of crisp bags over the floor but were not the violent type usually offering apologies to those struck by stray crisps!!

What most of us found incredible was that the lad from Rail Gourmet continued to let them purchase cans of Guinness (at the usual inflated price) even though two of them were almost legless!!

Having said that I have no problem with responsible drinking on trains, I do it myself from time to time and would like to be able to continue to do so...

foggy_lad

Were they old enough to drink?

Cookie_Monster

the only reason to get the train rather than drive to Westport is the crate of cans you can place on the table

killbillvol2

I was on the Cork-Dublin train one Sunday evening with a friend and we had a good supply of drink for the journey. There was an elderly gent at the same table at us and I was conscious of not upsetting him.

As soon as we produced the first cans he said "ah, civilised company for the journey" and reached into his bag. Out came a decent bottle of red wine, a corkscrew and a wine glass!

RandolphEsq

On Good Friday was it a common thing to bring booze and drink on the train?

Losty Dublin

RandolphEsq wrote: »

On Good Friday was it a common thing to bring booze and drink on the train?

In times gone by, it was a big big day as every thirsty soul wanted to travel for the sake of a pint. However, it got too messy so it was pretty much done away with. Even the RPSI abandoned their annual Good Friday trip for the same reasons, big and all an earner as it was for them.

-Corkie-

I normally would never drink on the train especially when I rarley use the train. I had a dangerous session in Dublin one night with a few old friends. I boarded the train and the stranger next to me was in a worse state. I went to the bar and ended up being bladdered drunk before I reached Mallow..

Destroyer666

Often drink a few beers on the bus or train when I go from Galway to Dublin and nowbodys ever sad a word to me, unless your rowdy or falling about the place I doubt anyone will bother with ya.

n97 mini

RandolphEsq wrote: »

On Good Friday was it a common thing to bring booze and drink on the train?

You don't have to get the train. You only need a train ticket and you can drink in any of IE's bars.

Having said that IE's bars are generally brutal. Talk about wasting something that was handed to them on a platter...

Losty Dublin

n97 mini wrote: »

You don't have to get the train. You only need a train ticket and you can drink in any of IE's bars.

Having said that IE's bars are generally brutal. Talk about wasting something that was handed to them on a platter...

Irish Rail don't run the bars. The premises are leased out by and licenced, managed and fitted out as per the leasing publicans call.

mikemac

Nothing wrong with the bar in Limerick Colbert, it's a fine bar

And Oslo Bar in Connolly is superb, best carvary around and they do a roaring trade with the financial services workers next door

n97 mini

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Irish Rail don't run the bars. The premises are leased out by and licenced, managed and fitted out as per the leasing publicans call.

Doesn't matter who, how or why. They're a licencing loophole and a massive opportunity squandered by IE.

mikemac wrote: »

And Oslo Bar in Connolly is superb, best carvary around and they do a roaring trade with the financial services workers next door

Only bar in Dublin closed by 8pm.

Losty Dublin

n97 mini wrote: »

Doesn't matter who, how or why. They're a licencing loophole and a massive opportunity squandered by IE.

How exactly is is squandered, tell us? How would you run it better than Madigan group? :rolleyes:

n97 mini wrote: »

Only bar in Dublin closed by 8pm.

Maybe you should pop in and ask the staff why it and many other city pubs close early. It's nothing to do with the area being a ghost town that time of day :rolleyes:

Judgement Day

n97 mini - are you sure you're not another of my usernames?

n97 mini

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Maybe you should pop in and ask the staff why it and many other city pubs close early. It's nothing to do with the area being a ghost town that time of day :rolleyes:

And it's a ghost town because they make no effort to attract people in. Unbelievable on a Friday night that it's closed at 8pm. Not 100 yards away The Harbour Master is wedged while Oslo is in darkness.

I don't care who runs it. If I was running a pub and it was closed at 8pm on a Friday night I'd get into another business.