Irish Rail New Proposed Timetable - August 2024

Closure announced for the Christmas/New Year period. No trains between Connolly and Grand Canal Dock from the 27th December until the 5th of Jan. With a few exceptions. Some people may have already noticed the night time prep works on the Loopline bridge. First track renewal in 20 years.

my Dart yesterday left Greystones 10 minutes late. I'd have thought the practical thing in those circumstances would be to run the following service, which departs from Bray, early to fill the now empty slot.

Obviously they didn't do this so there was a 20 minute gap in services, which got bigger as my train got delayed at every station from Dun Laoghaire onwards because it was jammed full and people couldn't get on, not helped by it being a 6-car train. Arrived in Pearse over 20 minutes down, no apology or explanation.

I don't think I've arrived in town in the morning less than 10 minutes late since September.

I'm not sure, but I'd imagine the crossover will be renewed as part of the works. Can't see the 10mph being lifted though. There's lots of small things that could be done to improve delays built into the system, but they seem hesitant to change them.

Just got a train from Portmarnock, so they must be back.

Those delays are in the region of refunds and vouchers are they not ?

Main system went down. Then the backup system gave issues when it was switched in. Signallers unable to see the state of the signals, or where trains were in the system.

Christmas arrangements announced

also out of that announcement, Christmas late night services start from next Thursday, running Thursday to Saturday nights over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas and New Years Eve as well

Pre-Christmas Late night DART and Commuter services

Late night DART and Commuter services will operate on the three weekends in the lead-in to Christmas  Please note for departures after midnight, these will be listed in our journey planner on the following date (e.g Friday 6th for after midnight on the night of Thursday 5th).

Late night services will operate as follows on Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th, Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th and Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st December:

00:30 & 01:30 from Pearse serving all stations to Howth

00:30 & 01:30 from Connolly serving all stations to Greystones

00:40 & 01:40 from Pearse serving Tara St, Connolly, and all stations from Howth Junction to Dundalk

00:20 & 02:00 from Pearse serving all stations to Maynooth

23:50 & 01:50 from Pearse serving all stations to Drumcondra, and all stations from ParkWest to Kildare

absolutely agree! the likes of the 39A struggles with nightime capacity, especially towards the weekend . having extra trains around 12.30-1.30 would make a difference to the likes of Blanchardstown and Maynooth/leixlip where the buses are already struggling with nightime capacity

They really should be running them as you say all year round. Also the first of those trains heading outbound should work a stopping service back into Dublin too. Gives people an option to get home later too going the other way. The train is out and the driver paid already, best make use of them.

Literally a similar timetable Thursday to Saturday nights would be all that is needed.

🤣 oh i am! Given that this happened a few years ago as well on multiple occasions, lessons have not really been learnt

Great to see the christmas late night trains back from tonight ! Over the next 3 Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and new years eve as well of course!