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08-12-2018, 17:08 | #1 |
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Im looking forward to the new timetable starting tomorrow. The half hourly frequencies all day mon-fri upto 9, up to 7 Saturday upto 7 Sunday and the later Sunday trains up to 11pm. Vast improvement.
One additional point. The last time the 7 and 9 services were introduced on the Sligo line and the 8.08 nonstop was introduced hastily, we had a suggestion that it should stop at clonsilla with a connection for broombridge - coolmine passengers using the docklands train ahead of it. It wasn't implemented then. Anyway the 08.02 ex Connolly to Maynooth will make just 2 stops at broombridge and clonsilla en route. Great news! |
15-02-2019, 09:11 | #2 |
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There was only around 5 passengers on the 06.55 to Sligo this morning with a few joining in Drumcondra. Would bet there was 0 departing Maynooth. I know the route gets a lot of local traffic but how IE and the NTA restored this service is crazy.
It was also a 29k however I understand its usually and 22k. |
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It gives a 10:15 arrival into Sligo which would be useful for students. Local traffic may be reasonable too. Within any timetable you will always have services which are partially positioning trips due to rolling stock or staffing constraints - hardly grounds for assessing it as “crazy”. |
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I fully stand by my crazy comment. They had an opportunity to offer an enhanced service but didn’t. |
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15-02-2019, 11:20 | #5 | |
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You’re just looking at the start of the journey where the relevant part really is the second half. Without hard numbers to compare you’re not going to know if it’s making a difference. You’re just making suppositions. |
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15-02-2019, 12:40 | #7 | |
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This frankly is a pointless argument without having hard data. All it is based on is one observation at the wrong end of the route. |
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