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Curragh Train Service

  • 02-05-2013 1:01pm
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    PN14
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    Lads quick question which ye might be able to inform me. Do Iranrod Eireann service the curragh stop for the Guinneas Weekend. I know they do for Derby Weekend but am trying to plan a trip up on either the sat or sun with a few lads and it would be handy if the train served it.


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  • #2
    Victor
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    PN14 wrote: »
    Lads quick question which ye might be able to inform me. Do Iranrod Eireann service the curragh stop for the Guinneas Weekend. I know they do for Derby Weekend but am trying to plan a trip up on either the sat or sun with a few lads and it would be handy if the train served it.

    I don't think any train has stopped at the Curragh for 25 years. However, there are many trains per days to Kildare and/or Newbridge. There is sometimes a bus service on race days - I suggest you make enquiries with the race course or Newbridge station.


  • #3
    klairondavis
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    They put on a bus from Kildare station that meets the train. The Curragh stop out near Moorefield GAA club has not been in use since the mid 1990s.


  • #4
    byronbay2
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    There is a free shuttle bus from Kildare train station to The Curragh racecourse on Derby weekend before racing. I don't know if this runs on the Guineas weekend. As others have said, the stop at The Curragh itself has not been used for maybe 15 years. It's a pity really as it was part of the Derby Day ritual, especially after racing when you had all the jackeens on one platform (heading north) and all the mucksavages on the other (heading south) - the banter was mighty!


  • #5
    PN14
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    Cheers guys the trains definetly stop there at derby weekend or at least they did up to a few years ago they just pull up and jump off on the old platform across the filed and into racecourse very handy. Same on the way home.
    If there is a shuttle bus from Kildare that will do as well. Thanks for info.


  • #6
    kfallon
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    The year Dylan Thomas won the Irish Derby (2006) was the last year the train from Heuston stopped at the Curragh platform. Used to stop there for all the Classics, then it was just the Derby and now it never stops there.

    Get a shuttle bus from Kildare to the course but on the bigger days you could be waiting to get on it (usually only a couple of minibuses laid on) so if the weather was nice you could get the train to Newbridge and walk out (25 min walk) or walk from Kildare.

    Stopped going to the Irish Derby after 2008 cos of the train situation. I actually haven't been back to The Curragh since Canford Cliffs won the Guineas and I used to go to nearly every meeting there.


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