Heuston Station

Hey. I missed my train just yesterday evening. Had a 1 hour wait.
Galway Hooker bar closes early for some reason.

I had the whole family, so we headed to the hotel just over the bridge and bought a few teas in the hotel bar. Was very nice.

I believe if CIE made a heated waiting area it would attract the local junkie rabble into the building. You always see them outside the main door to the benches in the right.

This is CIE, this is 2019 - 185 years since the first train left Westland Row for Kingstown - these things take time. Such facilities such as waiting rooms, toilets, buffets and security don't even come on their radar. Rome wasn't built in a day.

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whisky_galore wrote: »

They have nice heated waiting rooms 'down the country', but can't have them in one of its major stations in the capital owing the large zombie and scumbag population.

Down some of the country, the ticket offices don’t, or rarely, open and the only place to wait is outside.

I see Caffè Nero are advertising in Indeed.ie for staff for a new outlet at Heuston Station. I'm trying to figure out where they might be locating as I believe all units are currently occupied. Unless they are operating just a kiosk to replace the AMT Coffee kiosk when that coffee chain went bust?

I'd say that's exactly what's happening,there's a unit being constructed where AMT was at the moment.

Not sure where to post this query, but it involves Heuston Station, so here goes.

I booked tickets on the train to Cork this Saturday on behalf of an elderly neighbour. I asked him for his email when making the booking, but there was a typo in the email address he gave me. I got conformation of the booking, reservation number, etc. and passed these on to my neighbour.

Is there a danger that the booking might be invalidated because of the error in his email address? I couldn’t find a number to call to check this (maybe I didn’t try hard enough?), but I would hate him to turn up at Heuston on Saturday and find that he has no tickets and this his reserved seats in the ‘quiet’ carriage are not actually reserved.

Is it possible for IE to run a number of the Cork services to Connolly, maybe even onto Dun Laoghaire with major station only stops?

If they got to stop at drumcondra or connolly would open more options for transfer via bus to airport.

That makes sense. Would that include capacity for a cork train terminating at platform 1/2/3/4 in Connolly? Realise it would need to cross commuter lines.

Good argument for dart underground tunnel that would take Northern darts away from connolly. But that project seems far away.

Also there is a bus every 15 minutes for most of the day from Heuston directly to the Airport via the North Quays and Port Tunnel as it is!

Surely that’s enough to cope with the Cork train demand?

Why do people think that there is demand for a Cork - Belfast train service? I would say the number of people looking to travel between them is negligible. If the journey was theoretically possible (therefore both trains serving a common Dublin station), what would the benefits be over the small number of passengers looking to continue their journey simply changing trains?

And those people are incapable of using the tram?

How do people cope in London for example where they have to use the underground to transfer between mainline stations?

It’s pretty normal to make connections like that.

Seen the European model of inter City trains stopping at a station outside of final stop city to allow transfers.

Would Adamstown work as a stop for Cork/ Waterford/ Galway trains to allow ppl transfer to Dart SW route and onwards to Drumcondra/ Connolly?