Heuston Platform 10

[Mickey H]

When was this last used by a scheduled passenger service and is there anything to prevent its use in the future by (theoretically) a train ex Connolly?

[karlr42]

I think it was last used officially back in the early 2000s when Heuston was being remodelled.

Lack of capacity at Connolly is the main obstacle to its use, really. As well, it is too far from the main station building to be an attractive destination. There was a shuttle bus to the front of the building last time it was used.

[Jamie2k9]

Don't know the exact year but around 2004-6 the 15.10 to Waterford for many Sundays used to depart from it. Passengers were bused down. Don't know why when there were other platfroms free.

[Mark Gleeson]

As you can't depart to Connolly from platform 10 it renders it rather useless for any kind of through services

[dowlingm]

Could put in one of these yokes to get people there :D :D :D
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15959.aspx

It's a pity there isn't another curve from Broombridge to the tunnel so some Sligo line services could run into Heuston P10, or that the requisite connections weren't built to allow the odd Kildare service to terminate in Docklands. Ah well...

[James Howard]

It's a pity there isn't another curve from Broombridge to the tunnel so some Sligo line services could run into Heuston P10, or that the requisite connections weren't built to allow the odd Kildare service to terminate in Docklands. Ah well...

Thank God there isn't. The last thing I need is to have to hack across town from Heuston. Arrive p10, wait 10 minutes for a transfer bus, do the transfer, wait 5 minutes for a Luas, spend 15 minutes on the Luas. Do it all again in reverse in the evening except add another 10 minutes' safety time and there goes 6 hours per week.

[Kilocharlie]

Speaking as a Kildare Commuter, a train that served Docklands and did not serve Drumcondra is pointless. Worse still would a service that enter Heuston, then reversed out again.....

However, Kildare - Connolly makes some sense.

It's probably quicker to take the Luas or 90 bus than do the trek across the North City unless Docklands was the desired destination.

[Thomas J Stamp]

well, as we can see from the plans IE have for bringing people to the enthusiastic congess, the jouney time from Heuston to Connolly isnt all that bad. We have, over almost ten years, thrashed this one to death, and I personally think that with imagaination it (proper services to Connolly/Docklands) can be done.

I know it means a bit of work on the various junctions, but it isnt rocket science.

Then again, I live a kilometer from the Lisduff Curve and I have been gazing at the amazingly slow process that IE have been using to re-align it. The new diagram is on the floor, and has been, for months, but they seem incapable of putting it in.

Oh, and not for the first time that I have mentioned this, but back in the late 90's i regularly used the train from Limerick to Connolly which operated on a Sunday night. It was a regular scheduled service which blew the arguments out of the water, a point reinforced when we went to a public meeting in Newbridge (I think) where IE told everyone they were going to out in a service to Pearse on Sundays.

Where there is a will there is a way.