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Originally Posted by James Howard
The whole thing seems pretty pointless to me. There is no capacity in Connolly right now and while the signalling project helps the loop-line throughput, increasing the traffic coming from the Maynooth line and crossing the Northern line is hardly going to help the already fragile timetable. Then they would still have to turn back the Kildare trains somewhere or else park them up near GCD.
It doesn't really make any sense unless they can somehow magic up a couple of extra platforms at Connolly or bugger up the Maynooth service by running more trains to Docklands.
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It will need a timetable recast to deliver it, but it is perfectly possible once the full city centre signalling project is completed as that will mean significant extra capacity through the city centre.
One key element of that is to bring the extra platform at Grand Canal Dock into use, as the main northbound line. That will mean that the middle platform (currently the main northbound platform) will become a turnback platform and that trains can terminate there without clashing with other northbound services.