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Originally Posted by Jamie2k9
IE shouldn't need to provide an 22 for extra services as NIR were able to come up with 4 sets? to cover the refurb. I'm sure if they tried hard they could keep one for Dublin and if needed have no stopping between Newry-Connolly. First class will not be enough of a reasons in my book as extra services would be worked outside of the peak services were demand will be next to nothing.
In theory it would be possible to increase usage of the current 3 sets to increase form 8-9 services per day but it would require big changes and while I think it would work well generally provided customer feed back agreed.
Belfast - 06.00/07.15/09/15/11.30/13.00/14.30/17.00/19.15/21.00
Dublin - 06.30/08.45/10.00/11.45/14.15/16.45/18.15/19.45/21.30
Based on block time of 2h15, many scheduled for 2h10 or less now with an average of 30 minute turnaround similar to now.
Would give early arrival at either end and better evening options out of Dublin.
Only issue maintenance as the same set would be in Dublin all the time however depending on how much servicing they receive you could really cut Saturday to 8 and work Sunday around a set swap.
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I suspect that it would be more likely to move to a fixed two hourly pattern using three sets, and then augment it with 3 22k sets to go hourly.
Bear in mind that with the proposed 10 minute DART frequency paths will need to be standardised going forward.