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JUST 320 passengers a day will use the €110m Galway-Limerick train service which opens for business next week.
And it will take longer to travel by rail than by road, with 30 minutes added to the journey time of commuters who choose to go green and leave the car at home.
The Irish Independent has learnt Iarnrod Eireann expects to lose €2.4m a year running the service, with just 100,000 passengers expected to make the switch from road to rail in the first five years.
Even by 2015 when passenger numbers are expected to double to 640 people a day, trains will run at less than 40pc capacity, an independent review of the state rail company's business reveals.
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The middle bit is slightly unfair. 320 per day = 116,800 (presumably the 100,000 mentioned). Doubling that would mean 876,000 over the five years.