Cork to Limerick rail improvements

Is there any potential for any new or re-opened station between LK and LJ?

Anything in suburbs of Limerick?

New station has already been announced for Ballysimon in Limerick.

Pity they don't also want to reopen somewhere like Oola.

Yes easily, overcrowding has become an issue at peak times and rest of the day its completely full trains

Except that intercity train fares are incredibly cheap now...

At it's most simple, the population has, and is continuing to increase, a lot. So all things being equal, if the provision of services doesn't keep up and also increase, then those services will be under more pressure.

How do you know issues with enforcement continue when you haven't used the trains in 20 years. I have never seen someone not move and anyway if you are the 32e walk up you will be on the non booked carriage.

Travelling today is 32 vs 25 but very few are travelling that way and most will be on the cheaper fare. Added to that I haven't seen anyone standing on an intercity train in a long time except a few teenagers too shy to share a table.

Ah ya "my friend says".

A well known reliable source 😜

Oola, Palasgreen, Boher, Monard are all towns that they could reopen stations on the line easily and cheaply. The problem is that if you add 5 minutes to each station the train can become significantly slower than driving for the people wanting to go from Limerick-Cork or Limerick-Dublin

A good solution there would be to run a Limerick commuter line stopping at these stations running between Limerick and LJ with the intercity line running straight through these stations on dedicated tracks if needed

A good solution for Limerick-Cork would be to build a railway line in tandem with the new motorway - if the new motorway ever becomes a reality that is

Are any of those significant enough catchments for a station?

No. But if stations are built there will the catchment increase? Will the catchment area be big enough to support these new stations naturally by the time they are built?

Adare is a bottleneck at the moment and no doubt the lack of a railway line in the area doesn't help but if we want that fixed the line would have to extend beyond Adare to Foynes, Tralee, Killarney etc because that's where all the cars are coming from (and going to)

Not an auful idea on the P&R, abbeyfeale, rathkeale and Newcastlewest would disagree with your other statement though lol

Correct

At the endpoints it's usually OK (Dublin, Cork) but on the branch networks (Tralee line, Limerick line) all bets are off. I suspect that's why both you and the other poster are describing differing experiences.

This is also why many people (myself included) would like to see through-running Cork to Limerick. That train change in LJ is a recipe for stress without allocated seating. I've no problem changing on short distance journeys, but with longer journeys the seating allocations don't always work very well.

This isn't an Irish phenomenon and happens in other countries too, the Germans can be awful, sitting in your allocated seat and refusing to move.