[01-16/07/2013] Ballybrophy-Limerick - bus transfers

[Colm Moore]

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4428&p=116&n=237

Upcoming service alterations between Ballybrophy and Limerick
26 June 2013

Engineering Works Monday 1st to Saturday 6th July 2013

Due to engineering works between Ballybrophy and Birdhill, the following service alterations will take place on the dates above:

* 10:05hrs Ballybrophy - Limerick will be substituted by bus transfers.

Iarnród Éireann apologises for the inconvenience these alterations cause for our customers.

[Destructix]

Even this bus is too big for the job. For only 2-3 passengers average they should just hire a taxi

[dowlingm]

Even worse, if they adhere to the train schedule the poor old bus driver will be either beetling along or will have to idle at stations for a while.

When is there going to be a feckin' reshuffle so the bleeding can be staunched? To think that M3 Parkway was shoved into a bay off peak to save money, a double track 176m platform line, while a labour intensive ETS section where the few passing loops have no usable platforms remains open.

[Inniskeen]

Originally Posted by dowlingm

Even worse, if they adhere to the train schedule the poor old bus driver will be either beetling along or will have to idle at stations for a while.

When is there going to be a feckin' reshuffle so the bleeding can be staunched? To think that M3 Parkway was shoved into a bay off peak to save money, a double track 176m platform line, while a labour intensive ETS section where the few passing loops have no usable platforms remains open.

Five tickets sold at Hansfield yesterday up to about mid-day. Similar to Nenagh I suppose.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Originally Posted by Inniskeen

Five tickets sold at Hansfield yesterday up to about mid-day. Similar to Nenagh I suppose.

two wrongs dont make a right

[ACustomer]

Whatever about taking a through train from Hansfield during the peak hours, taking a train from Hansfield to Clonsilla for a few hundred meters and then changing to another train to Connolly which probably arrives 5 or 6 minutes later is daft. Much easier to walk, cycle, drive to Clonsilla.

Maybe when there are plenty of houses right next to Hansfield station things will be better, but that isn't going to happen for a while. Station should have been left mothballed and as a memorial to Celtic Tiger follies.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Originally Posted by dowlingm

Even worse, if they adhere to the train schedule the poor old bus driver will be either beetling along or will have to idle at stations for a while.

wonder who will be doing it this time. i knew one lad who did it before and he was bored silly first day but a few papers and taking it easy the next few was ok.

[Colm Moore]

http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4428&p=116&n=237

This line reopens on Tuesday 16th July.

[Thomas J Stamp]

there were four coaches in roscrea yesterday full of tourists. every day the place is full fo them. do they even know there is a railway line to roscrea?