So we now have two additional planned stations between Dublin and Clonsilla in addition to the little used Navan Road Parkway station.
Continually adding stations on a double track railway not only slows down services, it reduces overall track capacity and results in degraded longer distance services. Looks like the same ill-considered process that has messed up the northern and south eastern lines is in the process of being repeated on the Maynooth/Sligo line.
Additional stations don't necessarily generate net additional business and can also have the effect of increasing operational costs or reducing reliability as longer jouney times means either shorter turn-around times or more rolling stock and crew to maintain a service which for the majority of users is now slower and less attractive than previously.
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