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October 2017 Bank Holiday Transport

  • 25-10-2017 02:20PM
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    devnull
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    Dublin Bus
    http://dublinbus.ie/News-Centre/General-News/October-Bank-Holiday-Arrangements-2017/
    We wish to advise customers that the following arrangements and diversions will take place over the October Bank Holiday Weekend.

    Nitelink Service
    A full Nitelink service will operate on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 October, there will be no Nitelink service on Sunday 29 october 2017. Please note, clocks go back one hour on Saturday night/Sunday morning. When getting a Nitelink they will depart as per their normal timetable i.e. as if the clocks have not changed.

    Monday 30 October 2017
    On Monday 30 October 2017, a Sunday timetable will operate on all services.

    The following diversions will be in place over the bank holiday weekend;

    Dublin City Marathon
    http://dublinbus.ie/News-Centre/General-News/Diversions-due-SSE-Electricity-Dublin-Marathon-2017/
    The SSE Airtricity Dublin City Marathon 2017 will take place Sunday 29 October. As a result there will be diversions in place from 19.00 on Friday 27 October until 18.00 Monday 30 October.

    Fingal Festival of Fire
    http://dublinbus.ie/News-Centre/General-News/Diversions-due-to-Fingal-Festival-of-Fire/
    The Fingal Festival of Fire will take place in Swords Village on Tuesday 31 October 2017 from 18.00 to 20.00.

    Bus Eireann
    http://buseireann.ie/news_timetable.php?id=2438&month=Oct
    We wish to advise customers of the following alterations to services over the October Public Holiday

    Sunday 29 October 2017
    Normal Sunday services will operate with the following alterations:
    The following services will be cancelled:

    2000  2230 Dublin/Waterford (Table 4)
    1800  1930 Waterford/Busáras/DCU (Table 4)
    1500 Donegal/Pettigo/Dublin (Table 30)
    2100 Dublin/Donegal/Glenties (Table 30)
    1530 Dundalk/Galway (Table 70)
    1800 Galway/Dundalk (Table 70)
    2200 Carlow/Athlone (Table 73)
    1545 Lismore/Waterford (Table 366)


    Monday 30 October 2017 
    Normal Sunday services will operate with the following alterations:
    The following services will be cancelled:

    1900 Monaghan/Portrush (Table 36)
    1445 Portrush/Monaghan (Table 36)
    1530 Dundalk/Galway (Table 70)
    1800 Galway/Dundalk (Table 70)
    2200 Carlow/Athlone (Table 73)
    1250 Galway/Clifden (Table 419)
    1615 Clifden/Galway (Table 419)


    The following additional services will operate:

    Westport/Claremorris 840 (Table 52)
    connects with 0835 ex Ballina at Claremorris
    Monaghan/Belfast 1800 (Table 65)
    Clifden/Galway 1330 } normal weekday timetable (Table 419)
    Galway/Clifden 1815 } (Table 419)
    Galway/Ballinrobe/Westport/Ballina 0805} normal weekday timetable (Table 456)
    Ballina/Westport/Ballinrobe/Galway 1630} (Table 456)
    Ballybofey/Derry 730 (Table 480)
    Derry/Ballybofey 1810 (Table 480)


    All Cork City Services will operate a normal Sunday timetable,  plus the following additional services:

    Route 202 0635 ex Merchants Quay; 0700 ex Apple Hollyhill.
    Route 215 0630, 0730 & 0815 ex Grand Parade to Mahon Point.
    Route 226 0730 & 0830 ex Parnell Place to Airport; 1500 & 1600 ex Airport to Parnell Place.

    Irish Rail
    http://www.irishrail.ie/news/lineimprovementworks
    A number of line improvement works will take place this weekend from Friday 27th to Monday 30th October across our Rail Network and a number of routes/services will be affected.

    Please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable for more details. A summary of the main changes/alterations are listed below.
    October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf)

    Belfast & Northern Commuter
    Due to engineering works between Killester/Skerries and Newry/Lisburn the following service alterations will take place:

    Saturday 28th October and Sunday 29th October
    • All Dublin to Belfast and Belfast to Dublin services will operate as bus transfers on Saturday and Sunday. Buses will serve Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry, Portadown, Lurgan and Lisburn.
    • 06:45hrs Belfast to Dublin Connolly (Saturday) will not service Lisburn and Lurgan.
    • 16:50hrs Dublin Connolly to Belfast (Saturday) will not call at Drogheda.
    • All Drogheda and Dundalk commuter services will operate between Dundalk/Drogheda and Skerries only, with a bus transfer between Skerries and
    • Dublin Connolly serving Donabate.
    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Cork, Limerick and Tralee
    Due to line improvement works between Hazelhatch/Ballybrophy and engineering works in Mallow the following service alterations will take place:

    Friday 27th October
    • The 16:00hrs Heuston/Cork and 18:20hrs Cork/Heuston will be the last train services to operate direct, with all services thereafter operating with bus transfers between Mallow/Cork/Mallow.
    • The 17:05hrs Heuston/Tralee and 17:05hrs Tralee/Cork will be the last direct train services on the Tralee line, all services thereafter will be bus transfers between Mallow/Banteer/Mallow.
    Saturday 28th October/Sunday 29th October
    • All services on Saturday and Sunday to/from Cork will be operated by bus transfers between Mallow/Cork/Mallow and services to/from Tralee will have bus transfers in place between Mallow/Banteer/Mallow.
    • Limerick services will operate with revised times between Limerick/Limerick Junction and connect with Cork services at Limerick Junction.
    • All other Limerick services to Galway, Ballybrophy and Waterford will operate with revised times.
    • Additionally on Saturday, 06:20hrs Cork/Tralee will be operated by a bus transfer throughout.
    Monday 30th October
    The following service plan will be in place on the Bank Holiday Monday.
    • 07:00hrs Heuston/Cork and the 07:00hrs, 09:20hrs and the deferred 13:35hrs Cork/Heuston services will be operated by bus transfers between Mallow/Cork/Mallow with train services operating from Mallow to Dublin Heuston.
    • 09:00hrs & 10:00hrs Heuston/Cork and the 10:20hrs, 11:20hrs, and the 12:20hrs Cork/Heuston services will be operated by bus transfers between Charleville/Cork/Charleville.
    • 13:20hrs Cork/Heuston will operate with bus transfer to Mallow with the train operating from Mallow to Heuston.
    • 11:00hrs Heuston/Cork and the deferred 14:35hrs Cork/Heuston will be first train services to operate fully throughout in each direction.
    • 07:05hrs, 09:05hrs, 11:05hrs ex Tralee will have bus transfers in operation between Banteer/Mallow.
    • 08:55hrs Cork/Tralee service will have bus transfers in operation between Cork/Mallow/Banteer.
    • 11:20hrs Mallow/Tralee will operate as a bus transfers throughout, starting from Charleville.
    • 13:20hrs Mallow/Tralee and deferred 13:15hrs Tralee/Heuston will be first train services to operate fully throughout in each direction.
    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    DART Services
    Due to engineering works between Killester/Skerries the following service alterations will take place:

    Saturday 28th October and Sunday 29th October
    • DART services will operate between Dublin Connolly and Bray/Greystones, there will be NO train service between Dublin Connolly and Malahide/Howth. Dublin Bus will accept valid rail tickets for travel within the affected DART route.
    • Drogheda/Dundalk services will operate between Dundalk/Drogheda and Skerries, bus transfer will operate between Skerries/Donabate and Connolly.
    • Rush & Lusk station will be closed. Dublin Bus will accept valid rail tickets for travel between Rush & Lusk and Connolly station Only.
    • Rosslare/Sligo/Longford and Maynooth services will operate as normal.
    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Galway and Westport

    Friday 27th October to Monday 30th October
    Galway and Westport services will operate normally in both directions.

    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Waterford

    Friday 27th October to Monday 30th October
    Dublin Heuston to Waterford services will operate normally in both directions.

    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Portlaoise and Kildare to Dublin Commuter services

    Friday 27th October to Monday 30th October
    Dublin Heuston/Portlaoise services will operate normally in both directions.

    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Rosslare

    Friday 27th October to Monday 30th October
    Dublin Connolly/Rosslare Europort services will operate normally in both directions.

    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Sligo

    Friday 27th October to Monday 30th October
    Dublin Connolly/Sligo services will operate normally in both directions.

    We advise customers to check their journey details prior to travelling. For full details of services available please check our journey planner or our October Bank Holiday Timetable (pdf).

    Catering
    On affected services, a trolley service will be provided on all InterCity services. Dining car and restaurant car facilities will not be available.

    First Class
    On affected services, first class facilities will not be available.

    LUAS
    https://www.luas.ie/index.php?id=309
    Passengers

    Dublin City Marathon 29th October.
    Please be advised that Luas services will be delayed and some services suspended to allow for the participants of the SSE Airtricity Marathon to cross the Luas Tracks. The impact will be felt initially on the Green Line from 8.55am until approx. 9.30am. Then on the Red Line at Blackhall Place where we expect that some services will be suspended between 9.00am and 10.15am.

    Unfortunately due to the nature of the event we are unable to provide an exact time, the organisers and the Gardai have informed us that they will work with us in an effort to reduce the impact on the line.

    Bank Holiday Monday 30th November
    Please be advised service will run as per a Sunday timetable. Starting at 7am and finishing at 11.00pm inbound and 11.30pm outbound. Please see https://www.luas.ie/times/ for more information.


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