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M3 Parkway not announced as destination in Connolly

  • 13-08-2012 8:21pm
    #1
    daymobrew
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    On Sunday morning I got the 11:18 Connolly to M3 Parkway.
    The automated platform announcement didn't mention "M3 Parkway" when listing the trains destination e.g. "Now arriving at Platform 7 is the 11:18 service to (blank); calling at Drumcondra etc"

    On the train it is announced.

    Is this a known issue?


Comments

  • #2
    n97 mini
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    Yeah, it should be called M3 Park & Ride, as a parkway is a type of road, e.g. Western Parkway which is a section of the M50.

    The system says "does not compute" as it knows "parkway" in a rail context in Ireland is wrong.


  • #3
    daymobrew
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    The system says "does not compute" as it knows "parkway" in a rail context in Ireland is wrong.
    Should I change my question to " 'Does not compute' not announed" :D

    I don't recall if it mentioned "Navan Road Parkway".


  • #4
    CIE
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    Way overdue to finish the line to Navan. Or are they waiting for the M3 to have tailbacks that are at least forty kilometres long before they do that...?


  • #5
    Hilly Bill
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    It will be a good while yet before anymore will be done in extending that line . Finances etc.

    Not much tailbacks on the M3 these days is there?


  • #6
    markpb
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    CIE wrote: »
    Way overdue to finish the line to Navan. Or are they waiting for the M3 to have tailbacks that are at least forty kilometres long before they do that...?

    Haha. Have you seen the M3? :)


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  • #7
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    I could be wrong but the trains don't actually go from Connolly to M3 Parkway. Used this service a few times. Perhaps that is why it didn't mention the m3.

    The train you boarded was probably a Connolly-Maynooth train. You most likely got off the train in Clonsilla, waited 10-15 minutes and got on the Docklands-M3 train.

    Ridiculous system but what more do you expect in Ireland?


  • #8
    The Idyll Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    markpb wrote: »
    Haha. Have you seen the M3? :)

    There's a lot of chat about railways wasting money, wonder why very few talk about the blatant waste of money and running financial sore that is the M3?


  • #9
    LXFlyer
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    On Saturdays and Sundays the trains run from Pearse to M3.


  • #10
    ballooba
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    Yeah, it should be called M3 Park & Ride, as a parkway is a type of road, e.g. Western Parkway which is a section of the M50.
    Parkway is the terminology used in the UK AFAIK.


  • #11
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,570 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    I could be wrong but the trains don't actually go from Connolly to M3 Parkway. Used this service a few times. Perhaps that is why it didn't mention the m3.

    The train you boarded was probably a Connolly-Maynooth train. You most likely got off the train in Clonsilla, waited 10-15 minutes and got on the Docklands-M3 train.
    Ah go on, credit me with some intelligence. :cool:


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  • #12
    LXFlyer
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    markpb wrote: »
    Haha. Have you seen the M3? :)

    Something tells me he hasn't!


  • #13
    The Idyll Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    I could be wrong but the trains don't actually go from Connolly to M3 Parkway. Used this service a few times. Perhaps that is why it didn't mention the m3.

    The train you boarded was probably a Connolly-Maynooth train. You most likely got off the train in Clonsilla, waited 10-15 minutes and got on the Docklands-M3 train.

    Ridiculous system but what more do you expect in Ireland?

    Easy to check the facts, the timetable is here: http://www.irishrail.ie/media/DublinMaynooth111.pdf

    Lo and behold, there are Connolly to M3 trains!


  • #14
    dowlingm
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    that's not the new timetable though it is? The one where the M3 trains run into the bay?

    I keep saying it - there's a book to be written about how in the height of the boom and with a Meath Minister in the Department, the rail to Navan never got further than Pace.


  • #15
    The Idyll Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    dowlingm wrote: »
    that's not the new timetable though it is? The one where the M3 trains run into the bay?

    I keep saying it - there's a book to be written about how in the height of the boom and with a Meath Minister in the Department, the rail to Navan never got further than Pace.

    The clue is in the name given to Pace Station! I'd love to see some real investigative journalism into the whole story of the M3..


  • #16
    The Idyll Race
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    Just as a postscript, one of my friends has told me that the M3 Parkway service has been absolutely packed today, between the All-Ireland semi and the Tall Ships, with passengers queueing to get on.


  • #17
    TheChrisD
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    I am on my way into town on the first 70 of the morning (1010), and as we drove past Dunboyne station, the amount of people queueing for the first train of the morning (1018) was coming out of the station. I hope they put an 8-carriage (or 6-carriage if an Intercity train) on for that service...


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