[05/03/2012] Nenagh, Limerick and Commuter service improvements

[dowlingm]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

And that train would have made it back to Limerick for 8:45 am

Now you're just making me mad.

Put that same 22K out of Heuston at 0600
Limerick Junction dep 0735 (arr ex Colbert 0710, dep for Colbert 0800 arr 0829)
Charleville dep 0755
Mallow arr 0810 dep 0815 < padding rather than at Kent.
Cork arr 0840

I've a funny feeling you could manage 19 from Charleville alone if those timings were reliable, since running times should only improve as more UIC60 goes down. (Current BE schedule dep 0725 arr 0845 although Parnell Place is 5-10mins closer to the city centre)

The attractiveness of Mallow commuter might pick up a bit of extra trade if you knew you were only going to be 15 mins down not 30 should you miss the 0800.

First Limerick-Cork connection now arrives 30 minutes before the first BE bus (0915) though the predatory sister company would probably move to fix that possibly by extending the Charleville service back to Limerick.

But Alan Kelly doesn't care so the farce will go on and IE will take a hiding in the Irish Times in a couple of months.