2013 Heuston & Regional Draft Timetable

[m3parkway]

Great to see more use of the Kildare Route project infrastructure. 11 over takings heading out of Heuston between Commuter services to Portlaoise/Newbridge and Intercity services to Galway, Limerick and Cork. The Portlaoise services at 16:25 and 17:25 are both overtaken twice by Galway and Limerick services. Happy to see less stops on Intercity services thanks to the extension of the Kildare Commuter to Portloaise. Overall very happy with the new timetable.

[Jamie2k9]

If you're sprinting from passing loop to passing loop there's only so much time to be made up.

As with most lines

Things should of being improved more. Take the 17.35 down its realy only haveing 4 minutes dropped as it was always in Waterford arond 10 minutes early. 18.35 only seeing 2 mins cut it always arrived 5 minutes early in Waterford. 16.35 being moved 5 minutes but when at 16.35 it was in Waterford around 18.53 with 4 min stop in Kildare, 4 min in Athy, 3 extra in Kilkenny. (not waiting on other trains BTW)

[neoncircles]

I was under the impression some Limk-Dub services would be reintroduced to cut down on stops for Cork trains- though it would seem not!

[ACustomer]

It would be foolish to frame timetables where trains had to acheve absolute maximum performance in every section, ( no allowance for TSRs or the occasional need to use the wheelchair ramps) so I don't agree with the complaints about the Waterford line times. From my experience they are reasonably tight: remember that the advantage from 100mph v 80mph over a 10 to 12 mile section is not goimg to be very much.

Waterford -Dublin is 110 miles of which nearly 80 is on single track. Dublin-Belfast is 113 miles, virtually all double track. Many Waterford trains are timed at 2.10 or 2.15 for 6 or 7 stops; Belfast trains usually take 2.10 or 2.15for 4 or 5 stops. Given the size of the cities involved, I know which route needs to be shaken uop.

[Jamie2k9]

Some of the times I have posted currently have TSR in place ie Thomastown-Kilkenny and Kilkenny-Muine Bheag. TSR are most common between Kilkenny-Waterford and are very rare after Laivstwon North.

Even if they allow for extra time the 7-8 minutes stopped in Kilkenny is not acceptable.

Can't compare Belfast with Waterford mainly becasue of the congestion at either city.

From my experience they are reasonably tight:

What service do you travel on most as a few are tight but most are not.

[Destructix]

www.tippfm.com tomorrow 10am Tipp Today with Seamus Martin I bet my hair on it Virginia O'Dowd will be on it moaning about the loss of the Dublin service. They are lucky they just didn't close the line.

[Mark Gleeson]

Virginia won't be on, but there will be moaning