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What is Irelands Least Used Station

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  • #32
    loyatemu
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    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.


  • #33
    LXFlyer
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    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).


  • #34
    Isambard
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    surely not Farranfore, always a car park full of cars there.


  • #35
    L1011
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    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


  • #36
    thomasj
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    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.


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  • #37
    rebel456
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    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


  • #38
    Stephen15
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    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


  • #39
    lucernarian
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    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 :o


  • #40
    Banjoxed
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    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 ;)


  • #41
    end of the road
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    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?

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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  • #42
    Banjoxed
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    end of the road wrote: »
    does it zip up the motor way or down the ultra-back roads with grass growing up the middle?

    :D


  • #43
    Banjoxed
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    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'

    :D:D:D


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #45
    Fred Swanson
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  • #46
    Stephen15
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    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


  • #47
    oscyk
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