sunday/bank holiday services

[ThomasJ]

It was pretty disappointing that with the sunday night like a saturday night this bank holiday weekend and the ladies mini marathon on this bank holiday that no late night services were put on.

I know the argument is there that there is no demand. bulls**t! one of the best decisions made by IE in the last timetable was to run sunday maynooth services as 4-car 29000 sets running hourly at a generally fixed departure time (ie around half past the hour) I have been on trains at different times of the day and the numbers have been good. on gaa match days the numbers have been really good and on today marathon day numbers were really good.

the one chance for IE to take advantage of the thousand of women descending on dublin today to run the marathon and what do they do? lack of drogheda services, although the services after seven seemed to be good no maynooth trains later than half six, no kildare commuter services at all!!

sunday night people would have been heading to dublin city centre for drinks and socialising. sunday night would have been like a saturday night and maynooth like drogheda gets good passenger numbers heading inbound to dublin on a saturady night indeed drogheda had good passenger numbers heading inbound on sunday night another chance gone amiss.

the problem is IE fail to realise that life goes on in modern ireland on a bank holiday weekend. The twentieth century ideoligy of people doing nothing on bank holidays is dead and buried

its about time they wake up and smell the coffee beans!