Slow Kildare Line !!

[NB1]

I have long ago come to accept that the rail service is less than impressive,well actually its not even OK. Like most commuters on the Kildare line my trip either to Dublin or from Dublin starts with the usual worry's 1) Will there be a train at all, 2) If there is a train what time will it actually leave at.Now having got on the train I have come to notice particullary on the 05.15 from Athlone it can take anything from 2 mins to 5 mins to pull out of a station which results in the arrival time in Heuston being anything from 06.50 to 07.15. The afternoon and evening trains the 16.25 To Waterford in particular seems to suffer from random stop/starts as well as the delay in leaving some stations.IF these delays are related to the "speed restrictions" why are the delays so inconsistant ? Does this mean that some of the drivers are ignoring the restrictions ? Or does it mean what we all think .... the "speed restriction's" are a load of balls used as an optional excuse by Irish Rail.

[ThomasJ]

According to the special paddys day timetable there are no kildare services or commuter services on that line on bank holiday monday 19th march. Is this to do with works.

[Derek Wheeler]

Yep your right, the first Bank Holiday in the new timetable and IE are playing games with the Kildare commuter service. We checked it out online and it appears that a Waterford train stops outbound at Sallins and you take this to Newbridge and travel back in.

Now apart from it being stupidity and an operation that suits IE for some reason, its also a journey that IE have claimed is illegal!!!!!!

P11 will try to illicit an answer from IE and then highlight it in Kildare media.

For a start, it looks like the method of "starving the horse, so it can't pull". Which suggests that IE are not very serious about a Sunday commuter service on the Kildare line at all. Every other commuter line in the country has the normal Sunday service on Bank Holiday Monday.

[ThomasJ]

They kept that quiet. Where 17th and 18th march are included in the notice of heuston disruption did not mention this date at all. There are massive signs for dart and northern and western commuter services over the weekend in connolly. I have not been to heuston this week. Is there any notice of this up.