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Last train from Belfast to Dublin

  • 31-12-2014 12:34am
    #1
    n97 mini
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    ...used to arrive in Dublin around 22.30 iirc? Now it's been pushed forward and arrives at 23.50... too late for any onward connections. What's that about?


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  • #2
    Hilly Bill
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    Pushed back you mean?

    http://www.irishrail.ie/news/enterpriseupgrade


  • #3
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Semantics, but nonetheless it means I'll be driving as I don't live near Connolly.


  • #4
    L1011
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    ...used to arrive in Dublin around 22.30 iirc? Now it's been pushed forward and arrives at 23.50... too late for any onward connections. What's that about?

    I seem to remember it has to do with not overnighting a set of 22ks in Belfast due to lack of proper facilities for it.


  • #5
    LXFlyer
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    It's due to the use of an Intercity Railcar (ICR) on the route during the Enterprise upgrade.

    Normally the sets rotate over three days, being worked by both companies' crews with a different one overnighting in Dunlin each night.

    However, the ICR is only crewed by IE staff and needs to overnight in Dublin each night for servicing.

    The only way of getting the ICR back to Dublin was to defer the last train, unless you went down the route of transferring passengers between two trains midway along the route, which would be far from desirable.


  • #6
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Is this arrangement going to prevail for long does anyone know?


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  • #7
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,287 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    n97 mini wrote: »
    Is this arrangement going to prevail for long does anyone know?

    Until the refurbishment of the Enterprise sets is complete - I'd imagine late 2015.


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