Irish rail fleet and infrastructure plans

Renmore: close to Bon Secour hosp and ATU

Roscam: loads of housing estates

Recently, GY City Council proposed to re-zone more land at Murrough, and left space for a station in their proposals.

Initial reading. The route will be 4 new stops:

Dunshaughlin, Kilmessan, Navan Cental and Navan North.

It'll run every 15 mins at peak times and will effectively be an extension of the DART, not an intercity service. Journey time to city centre will be 1 hour. Park and ride at all stations except Navan Central.

Edit: it seems we've waited 2 years for a bit of crayon on map, no real preliminary design at all. Wonder what all the delay was for.

The Irish Times piece seems to me to be very badly written. No hint as to what exactly went wrong. I don't know anything more having read it,except that there is a €50m problem somewhere

No, it diverts to better serve Dunshauglin amongst other minor changes.

What is the relationship between ETCS and the IT sustem in the news today?

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0521/1574535-irish-rail-project/

I work for a company in Britain who designed and supplies the only operational TMS in Britain, maybe I will get our Sales team to contact Iarnrod Eireann!

I did not realise Indra was supplying their DaVinci control system to Iarnrod Eireann as well as TMS

Maybe IR need Scalable, Luminate & Initiate - anyway I digress…

Agreed, the biggest impediment to using TMS is cultural, I have seen that in Edinburgh IECC and WSSC control where TMS is overlayed on the 9 workstations that control the railway

They should really have made Iarnrod Eireann make all interlocking interfaces standard. I know we replicate relay interlocking config to interface to Scalable and standard interface to TDM (as an example). You cannot start bespoking your interfaces as that is a recipe for complication and failure.

Edit: one of the consequences of Iarnrod Eireanns dash to different suppliers across the decades and world is the proprietary system or interface.

On the topic of intercity rail services and passenger comfort (in particular versus competing bus services), I have wondered why IE continue with a carriage configuration that has seating at tables to the extent that it has. I would say that part of the reason IC travel isn't as relaxing as it could be is because passengers are seated in groups of four, facing each other and encouraged to interact (sometimes with fellow passengers who are strangers to one another). The reality is that IC travel in this country rarely exceeds 3h so is there really a need for tables? Can we fit more seats on each carriage if it was more of an airplane/coach configuration where everyone is just facing forward? People would certainly talk less. I was recently in Malaysia where their IC service consists of carriages where tabled seating was the exception and it made for a far quieter and more comfortable journey.

I like the four top tables myself, so I can work at a laptop. Never really had any issue with interactions with people, even though I prefer not to talk to people while travelling.

I do love the single seat option on the Enterprise sets though. 🤣

Mk3 always had table seats, the ratio was changed early on