Why don't all Maynooth services stop at all intermediate stops?

AngryLips

So I was waiting for the train at Ashtown the other day and noticed a Maynooth service go past the station without stopping. Is there any rationale for this? I would've thought all Maynooth and Pace services would stop at all intermediate stations just like the Dart. They're similar suburban services that cover similar distances...

MGWR

AngryLips wrote: »

So I was waiting for the train at Ashtown the other day and noticed a Maynooth service go past the station without stopping. Is there any rationale for this? I would've thought all Maynooth and Pace services would stop at all intermediate stations just like the DART. They're similar suburban services that cover similar distances...

What time of day? It wasn't a Sligo train that passed through?

AngryLips

MGWR wrote: »

What time of day? It wasn't a Sligo train that passed through?

it was a commuter train and it had Maynooth written on the front I think. I forget the day and time

thomasj

The only train that runs to maynooth non-stop leaves Connolly at around 8.05 in the morning

The rest should call at all stops

cython

thomasj wrote: »

The only train that runs to maynooth non-stop leaves Connolly at around 8.10 in the morning

The rest should call at all stops

This particular service always strikes me as one of the most pointless services operated on that line, to be honest. As a 4 car, it is typically nearly empty leaving Connolly, and while I don't know what service it operates back into Dublin, the earliest it can realistically be there is probably nearly 09:30, well towards the tail end of rush hour. Some might argue that it serves as an express service for the university start time at 09:00, but the volumes it is serving don't suggest that enough people use it as such to justify it.

woodrow wyatt

cython wrote: »

This particular service always strikes me as one of the most pointless services operated on that line, to be honest. As a 4 car, it is typically nearly empty leaving Connolly, and while I don't know what service it operates back into Dublin, the earliest it can realistically be there is probably nearly 09:30, well towards the tail end of rush hour. Some might argue that it serves as an express service for the university start time at 09:00, but the volumes it is serving don't suggest that enough people use it as such to justify it.

Probably runs on request of a politician to take his wife to work.

thomasj

cython wrote: »

This particular service always strikes me as one of the most pointless services operated on that line, to be honest. As a 4 car, it is typically nearly empty leaving Connolly, and while I don't know what service it operates back into Dublin, the earliest it can realistically be there is probably nearly 09:30, well towards the tail end of rush hour. Some might argue that it serves as an express service for the university start time at 09:00, but the volumes it is serving don't suggest that enough people use it as such to justify it.

In fairness there is a bit of a background into why this service runs as it does.

Back a few years ago, Irish rail cancelled the 8am Dublin to Sligo service (and replaced it with a 7am and 9am) this was the only train that got to maynooth around the time before 9am and caused a fair bit of anger.

In response, Irish rail decided that it would take passengers on its already empty 08.08 connolly nonstop maynooth service. Sure it had to go that way at time in anyway to run the 08.40 maynooth Connolly may as well take passengers to maynooth.

In the last timetable however, its reintroduced the 08.00 service to Sligo so that's why you are seeing that train empty as the Sligo service left 5 minutes before it takes the passengers.

LXFlyer

I see the usual nonsense is coming out here.

The 08:04 Connolly-Maynooth is basically a positioning journey to get the train back to Maynooth to operate a busy commuter service back to the city. There is nothing unusual in doing this in the transport industry to keep the peak flow of traffic moving.

It arrives at Maynooth at 08:35 and then returns at 08:40 from Maynooth to Connolly.

monument

woodrow wyatt wrote: »

Probably runs on request of a politician to take his wife to work.

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