thewexman93 wrote: » You'd have to wonder how the marvellous engineers of their time ever thought that the Limerick junction layout was sensible. They were capable of tunnelling through all sorts of rock, building marvellous Bridges and viaducts, yet they couldn't even design a station to avoid reversing. On a straight mainline. And that's just the Dublin cork line traffic. I won't even begin to describe how stupid the shunt was behind the station to the Rosslare bay platform
theguzman wrote: » Irish Rail would prefer to close the Limerick Junction to Waterford line if they could get away with it.
Last Stop wrote: » If they added less than 1.5km of new line, it would be possible to go from Limerick to Waterford without any reversing movements. This would also offer the direct platform connection between services that use the new platform 4. One can dream eh :rolleyes:
IE 222 wrote: » Why does the bridge need a roof all of a sudden.
dowlingm wrote: » Closing the overbridge a month into service to throw a roof on it that it should never have opened without.https://youtu.be/cQp9RC2sfT0
IE 222 wrote: » They'll still need to cross either on arrival or departure. Having both timed at the same time is going to cause a delay to either one if everything is running on time.
Grab All Association wrote: » I’m on the 12:15 Thurles - Cork (Dublin-Cork) it was 7 minutes late and snailed it from North of Goolds Cross to Dundrum. And I’ll bet you it’s going to pull in at platform 1. Edit: No, 4, but a delay with those stupid American tourists and those stupid cyclists with their racing bikes.
Del.Monte wrote: » So has the new platform resulted in dramatically shorter journey times or was it just more wasting public money?
Jamie2k9 wrote: » They now use both P4 or P5 for Dublin services so not an issue like a few years ago.
IE 222 wrote: » Pushing Cork departures to xx:30 will conflict with arrivals from Dublin unless the shorter journey times are scheduled. They need to get journey times down to 2:20hrs as some Sunday services currently do and then they can push out xx:30 with perfect connection times in LJ.
Jamie2k9 wrote: » Well when they left Cork at xx.20 there was only a 2-3 min wait, they increased that when they moved to xx.25. Moving to xx.30 should only add 2 minutes if even that. They timetable 24/25 mins for a 20-21 min journey plus stopping time. Example 13.25 ex Cork yesterday scheduled to arrive Mallow at 13.49 and depart 13.51. The actual arrival was 13.45 and departure 13.50. Most services have 4-5 min stop at Mallow. There is nothing unreasonable that I am proposing. You need recovery time in schedules but IE take it to a different level.
Quackster wrote: » That would be a rather sh1tty thing to do in fairness.
Jamie2k9 wrote: » As I said, doesn't impact Tralee schedules...
Quackster wrote: » Cork services deferred by five minutes would mean five more minutes standing around on the platform at Mallow waiting!
Jamie2k9 wrote: » Cork services deferred by 5 mins should have no impact on Tralee schedules.
Quackster wrote: » I can't see how you could run Dublin-bound trains later to arrive at LJ at the same time as Cork-bound trains without completely screwing up Kerry services. Unless you installed a passing loop halfway between Rathmore and Killarney. Which obviously is not going to happen...
The_Wanderer wrote: » This will occur in a future timetable. A soft launch was undertaken. Platform 1 at Limerick Jct. has been 15mph since I became heavily interested in Irish Railways in the early 1990's and probably long before that. While observing on Monday, the 1025 Cork - Heuston was 6 minutes late arriving into Limerick Jct. This resulted in the 1025 service and the 1000 Heuston - Cork being in Limerick Jct. at the same time. The new platform offers a significant performance win in the current timetable, even without the schedules yet being adjusted to have both trains in LJ at the same time. If this happened last week the 1000 service would have been delayed awaiting a platform. As stated earlier a soft launch was taken. A future timetable recast is needed to achieve it, which will impact on Mallow connections to/from Tralee.
Jamie2k9 wrote: » There is still around 10 minute gaps between a Cork/Dublin and Dublin/Cork service arriving at the junction. This was supposed to be eliminated.
Jamie2k9 wrote: » The approach to Limerick J as referenced by The Wanderer has been implemented by Irish Rail. The 15mph is relativity recent
Jamie2k9 wrote: » The disruption caused by a single platform wasn’t particularly bad and generally became more apparent as they increased speeds without timetable adjustments.
Jamie2k9 wrote: » Right now the platform is not delivering what it should be and until both trains are schedule together the investment is questionable.
