Why no trains after 7?

[Mark Gleeson]

Irish Rail refuse to consider later trains. We went through this with Port Laois last year which would have the highest demand. Though when the new maintenance facility opens there will be services late into the evening to Port Laois to shuttle the trains around

The real issue is to operate to Gorey/Longford/Killkenny later than now would require the train to stay overnight and since they are staffed by Dublin drivers that won't happen, they all return in service to Dublin that night. We had the farce of sticking the drivers for the morning Longford trains in a taxi from Connolly a few years ago, it took years to fix

Word is a later train to Gorey is likely but depends on staff being based there. In general later trains out of Heuston station are off the agenda until at least 2009 as many evening trains will be cancelled on and off while the 4 track project is ongoing to Hazelhatch

Last train to Carlow is 20:05, Killkenny is over 80 miles from Dublin many places a lot closer have no service after 6:35pm so its not on the priority list, in fact it would be bad idea in transport planning to further encourage long distance commuting