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Irish Rail Smartcard

  • 28-10-2011 04:50PM
    #1
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just a quick question, as I may need to use the train soon a little.

    Where can you get an Irish Rail prepaid smartcard from that I saw advertised on the DART a few weeks ago? I've barely used the rail system in the last few years so I'm totally out of touch with this.

    Also:
    - How do you top it up?
    - Do you have to pay for the card itself?
    - For what kind of journeys can it be used for?


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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,483 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    1: at TVMs
    2: Refundable fiver, and it'll be replaced with a Leap card FOC when these come in.
    3: Anything within the inner commuter zone, e.g. Maynooth line, DART, Hazelhatch, Balbriggan I think

    It does not hold "season tickets" of any kind, its only an epurse for single journies. Fares are a bit lower than cash.


  • #3
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    By the way: TVM = ticket vending machines.

    And you can also buy them from Irish Rail's website.

    More on the smartcard, including the zone where it can be used: https://www.irishrail.ie/smartcard/pages/welcomeHelpIV.jsf

    It may be cheaper to buy a pre-paid ticket (these are disposable smartcard tech now anyway), see: http://www.taxsaver.ie and http://www.irishrail.ie/your_ticket/fares_enquiries.asp


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