Kilcoole Station

[JamesK]

A little over two years after the first post on this thread, the promised ticket machine and leap card equipment has still not been installed at this station.

[Traincustomer]

there are currently no plans to install a ticket machine due to the low numbers of passengers travelling from Kilcoole.

IÉ's own words from a response to a customer on Twitter in recent days.

A new gate (replacing an old dilapidated turnstile type gate) permitting access for customers with impaired mobility was provided at the station in recent months.

Who decided to remove Kilcoole from the aforementioned program list? IÉ, the NTA, both?

[Eddie]

Had been meaning for ages to walk on the beach from Greystones to Wicklow but finally managed to get out to do the Newcastle to Kilcoole leg recently.

When I got to Kilcoole, I thought how great it would be to get the train back.

Whilst I knew only 4-5 weekday trains go through here each day, I was completely bemused that that only half of these actually stop.

Don't know if any of you saw Paul Merton's C4 Request Stop 3 part programme in the summer where he traverses the length and breadth of the UK, getting on and off at stations where you have to request to the guard / conductor to get on or off, but I would have thought this station would be ideal for this. The infrastucture is there (clearly except the Leap card machine from earlier posts). Why not make use of it? What difference is slowing / stopping for an extra minute going to make to a couple of trains a day? I passed quite a few walkers that morning, and none of them could have come by train. How many people each day walk Bray to Greystones, which is only possible since a regular Dart was introduced to Greystones.

Perhaps it's because they can't guarantee a guard being on the train. If they can't, for an extra couple of trains a day, just stop there.

Would have been great to have got on the train here, but had to get the bus back instead. If I lived here I would find it completely frustrating that a train service existed but was so unnecessarily limited.

Years ago I wrote about my disbelief that Avoca didn't have a station (turned out there was one but it had closed years ago). Without millions being spent on this line it's never going to be able to compete with the road times, but for a lot less the Rosslare line could tap into a tourist market in a way which many other lines can't.

[Traincustomer]

In terms of Kilcoole, Mr Reville said that he didn't envisage a problem providing a shelter there and said he would look at the feasibility of trains passing through Kilcoole stopping there more often.

'I think we can look positively on it as long as it doesn't disrupt the timetable too much.'

Mr Reville said that he would be in favour of extra bike spaces but said that the station is quite narrow.

In respect of a station at Avoca, Mr Reville said that it wasn't on the cards at the moment, adding it wasn't included in any capital programme at the moment.

He also told Cllr Walsh that the fares are set by the National Transport Authority and Iarnród Éireann can't regulate them.

In respect of terminating the service before Rosslare, Mr Reville said that it was a suggestion contained in the rail review.

Extract from source:
http://www.independent.ie/regionals/...-35848203.html