Timings between Kildare and Heuston have a huge amount of padding. I think a blanket 10 minutes was added a few years ago to all arrivals at Heuston when the platforms there were being redeveloped but this has never been removed.
The 17:30 Limerick-Heuston is scheduled to arrive at 20:00 but generally gets in at 19:45 even when operated by vacuum-braked Mark IIs.
The 15:30 Cork-Dublin is allocated an incredible 50 minutes between Kildare and Heuston. Today it left Kildare at 17:47, 12 minutes late and arrived at 18:16, 9 minutes early. It looks like there is 15-20 minutes padding in the schedules to me.
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