Rail Users Ireland Forum - View Single Post - Should irish rails reference to rosslare europort be removed ?

ThomasJ · 24-12-2009, 13:03

The problem is the concept of the car ferry coupled with the introduction of eurolines services and low fare flying.

If you look at the options available to passengers we have irish ferries and the non-hss stena line services. People find the central corridor more efficient more choice down the port. sadly dun laoghaire has had its day im surprised stena line have not moved their last dun laoghaire services down to the port there was talk of it.

Rosslare is sadly more or less the same.

Irish rail is not entirely to blame for the loss of foot passengers on the dun laoghaire but they have certainly helped based on their timetables. Regarding the rosslare line the timetable substandard service on the rosslare line and the move of the railway station has contributed and is continuing to contribute to the demise of sail and rail no the rosslare line. These alone are some of the reasons i would not use rosslare line or dun laoghaire but the central line. One of the hidden gems is the sail and rail package it was barely advertised. im sure not a lot of people know about it but if there were cheap family day trip deals integrating the two advertised properly people would gain interest

24-12-2009, 13:03	#7
ThomasJ Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Clonsilla Posts: 2,812	The problem is the concept of the car ferry coupled with the introduction of eurolines services and low fare flying. If you look at the options available to passengers we have irish ferries and the non-hss stena line services. People find the central corridor more efficient more choice down the port. sadly dun laoghaire has had its day im surprised stena line have not moved their last dun laoghaire services down to the port there was talk of it. Rosslare is sadly more or less the same. Irish rail is not entirely to blame for the loss of foot passengers on the dun laoghaire but they have certainly helped based on their timetables. Regarding the rosslare line the timetable substandard service on the rosslare line and the move of the railway station has contributed and is continuing to contribute to the demise of sail and rail no the rosslare line. These alone are some of the reasons i would not use rosslare line or dun laoghaire but the central line. One of the hidden gems is the sail and rail package it was barely advertised. im sure not a lot of people know about it but if there were cheap family day trip deals integrating the two advertised properly people would gain interest Last edited by ThomasJ : 24-12-2009 at 15:27.