What is Irelands Least Used Station

Stephen15

What would you say it is? You often see things about Britains least used stations but it would interesting whats Irelands least used station.

jca

Enniscorthy this time next year as it will be closed...

beauf

Stations of the Cross...

beauf

Are their any stations on estates that are only opened for events or tourists

Arthur Daley

Is mosney ever used anymore?

Stephen15

I would say Kilcoole, Birdhill, Cahir, Foxford, Farranfore and Cloughjordan would be up there

Stephen15

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Is mosney ever used anymore?

No

Del.Monte

Carrick-on-Suir must be right up there along with Ardrahan, Craughwell, and Cloughjordan.

Del.Monte

beauf wrote: »

Are their any stations on estates that are only opened for events or tourists

No.

Clonhugh and Woodbrook would have been a couple, and Dundrum on the Dublin/Cork line was virtually a private halt for the local landlord.

tomwaterford

Read an article today that says carrick on suir is....averaging 1 passenger per day

frag420

TG4

Donal55

tomwaterford wrote: »

Read an article today that says carrick on suir is....averaging 1 passenger per day

CIE should buy that person a 172 Dacia. Would probably work out cheaper.

tomwaterford

Donal55 wrote: »

CIE should buy that person a 172 Dacia. Would probably work out cheaper.

Tbh only I got train home from limerick couple years ago...never known there was 1 there before then



But maybe with this new shopping centre etc being built on north quays waterford...there's scope there for people from cahir-clonsmell-carrick to get train to and from it and should be explored before closing the line down??

Del.Monte

Donal55 wrote: »

CIE should buy that person a 172 Dacia. Would probably work out cheaper.

The train is passing through anyway so I doubt it. Anyway, it's CIE's fault for having a useless timetable in order to justify closing the line.

http://www.irishrail.ie/media/12_waterfordclonmellimk_valid_from_20.11.2016.pdf

cdeb

There's an annual passenger census done by Iarnród Éireann with that data. Technically it's over just one day, but should be reliable enough.

https://www.nationaltransport.ie/news/heavy-rail-census-2015/

Carrick-on-Suir is the winner with one person getting on and no-one getting off on the day.

A number of other stations had single-digit usage

ArmaniJeanss

cdeb wrote: »

There's an annual passenger census done by Iarnrireann with that data. Technically it's over just one day, but should be reliable enough.

https://www.nationaltransport.ie/news/heavy-rail-census-2015/

Carrick-on-Suir is the winner with one person getting on and no-one getting off on the day.

A number of other stations had single-digit usage

Page 36 Appendix A says that 5 people per day got on a Southbound Dart at Greystones, and also 25 per day got on a Northbound Dart at Malahide. How are either of these possible?

Stephen15

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Page 36 Appendix A says that 5 people per day got on a Southbound Dart at Greystones, and also 25 per day got on a Northbound Dart at Malahide. How are either of these possible?

Probably people getting on a Dart thats just terminated

thelad95

The Navan Road Parkway on the Maynooth commuter line, even in peak times always seems to be dead. No point building a park and ride if there's very little parking.

Arthur Daley

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Is mosney ever used anymore?

That’s a blast from the past. From what I remember of it it was just a platform and some small hut.

Came across an old thread that mentioned it was technically a private station built by Butlins when it opened in 1948, it closed in 2000 when (now) Mosney did.

Stephen15

cisk wrote: »

That’s a blast from the past. From what I remember of it it was just a platform and some small hut.

Came across an old thread that mentioned it was technically a private station built by Butlins when it opened in 1948, it closed in 2000 when (now) Mosney did.

Still has a fairly modern looking real time board

Stephen15

Stephen15 wrote: »

Still has a fairly modern looking real time board

Yeah I wondered about that. Those boards weren’t around before 2000?

Mike238747

I remember being on a holiday in Mosney around 1975/6. The people on holiday there had to make sure they got their places at the pool or amusements before all the trainloads of Dubs arrived on day trips. A bit like Spain became later, apart from the sunshine of course!!

Nomis21

Attymon surely deserves a mention here.

roundymac

Del.Monte wrote: »

No.

Clonhugh and Woodbrook would have been a couple, and Dundrum on the Dublin/Cork line was virtually a private halt for the local landlord.

I thought there was a halt/platform at the Curragh for race days.

Del.Monte

roundymac wrote: »

I thought there was a halt/platform at the Curragh for race days.

There was a station for the Curragh and a branch into behind the main stand. Not sure if the station is still available for traffic.

end of the road

Del.Monte wrote: »

There was a station for the Curragh and a branch into behind the main stand. Not sure if the station is still available for traffic.

i don't think it is

metrovick001

M3 Parkway....are u for real?
Trains are packed.

l

thelad95 wrote: »

The Navan Road Parkway on the Maynooth commuter line, even in peak times always seems to be dead. No point building a park and ride if there's very little parking.

metrovick001

Attymon has a few commuters for Galway.
Very handy service.

Nomis21 wrote: »

Attymon surely deserves a mention here.

Dravokivich

metrovick001 wrote: »

M3 Parkway....are u for real?
Trains are packed.

l

Easy to get mixed up due to both being named after the same road, he's talking about the station by Phoenix Park. Even though the trains are packed, that station gets noticable less use than the rest of the line.

metrovick001

Fair enough.

Dravokivich wrote: »

Easy to get mixed up due to similar names, he's talking about the station by Phoenix Park. Even though the trains are packed, that station gets noticable less use than the rest of the line.

metrovick001

The car park charge at Phoenix park / Navan rd p/way or whatever they call it now is OTT considering the people paying it also need to pay a fare.

metrovick001 wrote: »

Fair enough.

loyatemu

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Page 36 Appendix A says that 5 people per day got on a Southbound Dart at Greystones, and also 25 per day got on a Northbound Dart at Malahide. How are either of these possible?

the count is done by people with clipboards, I guess they made mistakes and the data wasn't sanity-checked.

LXFlyer

The data collected in that NTA survey is fine for commuter services, but for Intercity services there really ought to also be surveys on a Friday/Sunday during the college terms and during the summer, to give a realistic picture. It doesn't in any way give you a feel for what the peak Intercity loadings are like.

metrovick001 wrote: »

The car park charge at Phoenix park / Navan rd p/way or whatever they call it now is OTT considering the people paying it also need to pay a fare.

Metrovick - of all the people here I'd expect you to know what a station is actually called. ;-)

It's Navan Road Parkway, renamed due to repeated confusion about the Phoenix Park name (it was allied to the development on the far side of the Navan Road that got put on hold due to the recession).

Isambard

surely not Farranfore, always a car park full of cars there.

L1011

Navan Road gets a small but consistent number of peak time passengers and was built for IE rather than having a capital cost to regret. It's certainly busier than broombridge was in the 90s.

The Phoenix Park racecourse developments will eventually get a lot closer to it also

thomasj

If you look back at the 2015 rail census, Navan Road parkway had a total number of boardings of 270, 1 less than Hazelhatch. M3 parkway had a total of 298 and Broombridge has 370.

My favourite stat was Clonsilla, Coolmine and Maynooth had larger boardings than a good few of the DART stations exception of course being the stations closer to the City and the big stations such as Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire, Bray etc.

rebel456

metrovick001 wrote: »

Attymon has a few commuters for Galway.
Very handy service.

A grand total of 7 commuters. 7 folks got on a train, and 7 got off, 14 individual journeys. According to the NTA National Rail Review: https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/151116_2016_Rail_Review_Report_Complete_Online.pdf

Stephen15

LXFlyer wrote: »

The data collected in that NTA survey is fine for commuter services, but for Intercity services there really ought to also be surveys on a Friday/Sunday during the college terms and during the summer, to give a realistic picture. It doesn't in any way give you a feel for what the peak Intercity loadings are like.

This survey should really be done over a week and then an average should gotten for a more accurate result

lucernarian

Stephen15 wrote: »

Still has a fairly modern looking real time board

And nowadays it has some fairly modern looking limestone trackbed where the platform track used to be

Banjoxed

loyatemu wrote: »

the count is done by people with clipboards, I guess they made mistakes and the data wasn't sanity-checked.

Bit like their travel app with its bus that zips to the Falls from Derry in 5 minutes

end of the road

Banjoxed wrote: »

Bit like their travel app with its bus that zips to the Falls from Derry in 5 minutes

does it zip up the motor way or down the ultra-back roads with grass growing up the middle?

Banjoxed

end of the road wrote: »

does it zip up the motor way or down the ultra-back roads with grass growing up the middle?

Banjoxed

end of the road wrote: »

does it zip up the motor way or down the ultra-back roads with grass growing up the middle?

'Zipping up the motorway' to me sounds like it's in Twink's voice on 'Zip up your mickey'

Del.Monte

Del.Monte wrote: »

There was a station for the Curragh and a branch into behind the main stand. Not sure if the station is still available for traffic.

end of the road wrote: »

i don't think it is

It has been out of use for a good while. The platforms are gone a few years now.

loyatemu wrote: »

the count is done by people with clipboards, I guess they made mistakes and the data wasn't sanity-checked.

Pretty much, I did this for Irish Rail at Clontarf Road one day in November 2007. I had one of those hand tally counters (still have it) and a clipboard with each timetabled service on it.

Fred Swanson

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Stephen15

Fred Swanson wrote: »

I remember stopping at The Curragh station back in 1994. It was an unscheduled stop on the "non stop" to Cork. The same train also stopped in Kildare to allow racegoers to change to other trains.

There was also a racecourse branch aswell back in the day closed in 1977

oscyk

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