[10/10/2014] Extra service from Galway to Heuston

[Traincustomer]

Extra service from Galway to Heuston tomorrow Friday 10th October

09 October 2014

An extra service will depart Galway tomorrow at 14:40hrs arriving into Dublin Heuston at 17:30hrs

Iarnród Éireann has introduced an extra afternoon service from Galway to Dublin Heuston for tomorrow Friday 10th October. The extra service will depart Galway at 14:40hrs and arrive at Heuston at 17:30hrs and will serve all intermediate stations highlighted below.

This service along with all regular services can be viewed through the journey planner above.

Source: IÉ website.

Serving Athenry, Woodlawn, Ballinasloe, Athlone, Clara, Tullamore, Portarlington, Kildare & Dublin Heuston.

[Jamie2k9]

http://www.irishrail.ie/news/extratrains

Extra trains from Galway (Friday 10th), Claremorris and Carrick-on-Shannon (Sunday 12th) to Dublin this weekend

09 October 2014

Extra trains from Galway (Friday 10th), Claremorris and Carrick-on-Shannon (Sunday 12th) to Dublin this weekend

Iarnród Éireann has introduced a number of additional services this weekend to cater for increased demand on our services.

The following additional services will operate;

Friday 10th October - 14:40hrs Galway to Dublin Heuston
Additional Galway to Heuston service

Sunday 12th October - 16:35hrs Claremorris to Dublin Heuston
Additional Claremorris to Heuston service serving all stops to Kildare.

Sunday 12th October - 18:21hrs Carrick-on-Shannon to Dublin Connolly
Additional Carrick to Connolly service

These services along with all regular services can be viewed through the journey planner above.

[James Howard]

This is all very positive stuff and hopefully a sign of change to come. It is good to see Irish Rail reacting to demand and adding services. The 1705 to Sligo this evening was properly busy this evening with a few people standing to Mullingar. It would be very sensible if they were to add a few cars to the 1805 to Longford and have it push on to Carrick. It is certainly looking a lot better than last year's student peak when they made a right mess of things by running two or three Friday 1705s as four cars and completely losing the student market for the year.

[Jamie2k9]

This is all very positive stuff and hopefully a sign of change to come. It is good to see Irish Rail reacting to demand and adding services. The 1705 to Sligo this evening was properly busy this evening with a few people standing to Mullingar. It would be very sensible if they were to add a few cars to the 1805 to Longford and have it push on to Carrick. It is certainly looking a lot better than last year's student peak when they made a right mess of things by running two or three Friday 1705s as four cars and completely losing the student market for the year.

Its good however I don't think its fully down to increased numbers, I would think they are up but the fleet problems are a big part.

They are unable to provide enough 6/7 coach sets and are left we to many 4 coach sets.

The 15.45 ex Westport would of being a 6 coach last year but its currently a 4 coach. If they were in a position to replace it with 2 (3 coach) or boost it to 7 coach they probably would as it would deliver an extra 119 or 190 extra seats but instead they are now forced into running two 4 coach sets. Now the Westport route does well however I don't think its doing that well on the numbers front.

The question is will they be able to keep up such operations long term as all these services will likely require some form of empty movements. There does seem to be a change in attitude and they look to try and keep passengers, last year must of cost them as how they managed the fleet changes were frankly shambolic.

[Jamie2k9]

Believe the fifth Mark IV was in use today for the 15.00/18.20 on Cork route, hopefully its always.

18,05 ex Waterford was given a 6 coach set this week, not sure if it was IE being genuine or were they pushed into it because people got clever and booked online, more less double the usual number of online reservations. Needless to say seats didn't stay empty but the 06.05 and 07.10 tomorrow morning will both be down a coach (83 seats) so commuters from Athy up will likely have issues. One reason appears to be because the 18.05 changed but I believe there was also a charter service to West of Ireland today and they prefer having one full unit running (not IE) and not joined which may explain why both are down. They could get away with the 07.10 being a 5 piece if it allowed the 18.05 on Sundays to be a 6 by doing a swap in Waterford on Sunday afternoon but the question is will IE approve!