It does seen that the way the timetable is set up on regional lines is mostly about connecting to Dublin-bound services than providing local options.

When the Limerick-Waterford line can’t get people into either city for a 9am start, that’s a hell of a lot of commuter traffic to just give up.

The only truly successful regional rail line is Cork-Cobh/Midleton and that is entirely focused on a regular commuter service into Cork, rather than infrequent connections to Cork-Dublin trains.

Limerick to Galway by car is cheaper, faster and gets you exactly where you want to go. That line will only work if it goes to Westport and onto Sligo. Still probably cheaper by car then.

They put additional trains on to see if anyone would use them? What kind of lunacy is this? Have they never heard of market research or customer surveys?

I never knew the Irish Rail had a timetable!

that’s privatization for you! I worked for what was British Rail for seventeen years,ok I got subsidised travel allowing me to get back to Ireland four times a year!
But Irish Rail need to really think again before cutting services,increasing fares and adjusting timetables, this won’t work,all it will do is drive frustrated customers into cars or alternative modes of transport.
Therefore losing more than just revenue!

trains in ireland a ridiculously expensive, mind you, they are cheaper than the uk

What’s the Green Party?

Irish Rail is the last bastion of old-school unionised semi-states where it’s perfectly acceptable to throw a strike at no notice whatsoever and leave 4,000 people on a platform because one of your colleagues has been sacked from what probably amounts to gross incompetence anyway.

They’ve pushed the price of rail travel so high that no one is using the trains anymore. Their new Ryanair-style pricing system where a ticket costs ten euro more today than it did yesterday is as incomprehensible as it is a blatant and contrived attempt to rip the public off. Is a student going home for the weekend going to pay a little over a tenner for a bus or almost thirty euro for the train? Ridiculous.

Sell and privatise this company now. Between management coming up with ever more byzantine schemes to charge more for the same service. such as the price being more expensive closer the date of travel (who do they think they are? British Airways?) and the new €2 “handling” fee coupled with staff that are stuck in the days of Arthur Scargill there’s just no hope. Privatise this company, privatise it now or give up the ghost on Ireland ever having a functional, affordable rail system.

Irish rail is a joke

The journey time between Limerick and Galway should be a little over 30 minutes. 120mph track should have been laid but this been Ireland it’s almost faster to cycle to Galway than get the train.

If IR wanted this route to work it would have ensured that the journey time was faster than that of the bus and car. They did no such thing, one wonders if people in IR want this route to fail, they certainly don’t seem to be interested in making a success of it.

Imagine a 30 minute journey time between the two Cities, students could go to college in either City and be home for tea, the same would apply to workers.

There’s still a Green Party?

the biggest mistake IR made was to reopen the limerick Galway line.

One can drive the route by almost 50% less time.

generally the expansion of road and rail network was not a wise decision. The new road new work has allowed bus companies to hijack IRs market. The better providers won out

They should invest in a few of those rail carts from Huckleberry Finn. Get fit while going places.

Green…..party…..?

RABBLE RABBLE…. SOMETHING ABOUT BANKERS, POLITICIANS AND SEAN QUINN!

The rail network in Ireland isn’t viable (except a few lines) and never will be with our population, its spread and its density. So most lines should be closed.
Simple !

In Finland and Australia, they run a rail service only where it makes money.
Running expensive trains into remote areas because Mrs Murphy wants to get a train to Dublin is crazy.

With greater car ownership and more buses, railway in Ireland is in terminal decline.

Face the facts…

On yer bike Greens. (I thought ye were gone already)

Like electronic voting it seems clear that train time tabling is too complex for the Irish.

The commuter trains from maynooth get you everywhere so that your either 40 minutes late or 40 minutes early, its bloody ridiculous

The cheapest and best option when building the motorway system was to build an extra 6 meter lane adjacent to the motorway.

This of course could have been used to build a high speed rail network between our Cities and Towns. People in their cars who saw these trains whizzing by would think twice about driving to their destination again.

Even when these motorways were being planned I was asking why a high speed rail system could not be built alongside them, just what were the civil servants asking?

The cheapest and best option when building the motorway system was to build an extra 6 meter lane adjacent to the motorway.

This of course could have been used to build a high speed rail network between our Cities and Towns. People in their cars who saw these trains whizzing by would think twice about driving to their destination again.

Even when these motorways were being planned I was asking why a high speed rail system could not be built alongside them, just what were the civil servants asking?

More unviable you mean.

As apparently is sarcasm!

What party?