sunday/bank holiday services

[ThomasJ]

It was pretty disappointing that with the sunday night like a saturday night this bank holiday weekend and the ladies mini marathon on this bank holiday that no late night services were put on.

I know the argument is there that there is no demand. bulls**t! one of the best decisions made by IE in the last timetable was to run sunday maynooth services as 4-car 29000 sets running hourly at a generally fixed departure time (ie around half past the hour) I have been on trains at different times of the day and the numbers have been good. on gaa match days the numbers have been really good and on today marathon day numbers were really good.

the one chance for IE to take advantage of the thousand of women descending on dublin today to run the marathon and what do they do? lack of drogheda services, although the services after seven seemed to be good no maynooth trains later than half six, no kildare commuter services at all!!

sunday night people would have been heading to dublin city centre for drinks and socialising. sunday night would have been like a saturday night and maynooth like drogheda gets good passenger numbers heading inbound to dublin on a saturady night indeed drogheda had good passenger numbers heading inbound on sunday night another chance gone amiss.

the problem is IE fail to realise that life goes on in modern ireland on a bank holiday weekend. The twentieth century ideoligy of people doing nothing on bank holidays is dead and buried

its about time they wake up and smell the coffee beans!

[Thomas J Stamp]

Sunday is more popular than Saturday for shopping in Dublin. Add that every week from now till September there are matches in Croke Park you would think they'd wake up.

Problem is, again, capacity. I noted on Sunday at 12.20 Inchicore was empty apart from a few wrecks. At 21.00 Sunday night it was full and there were two CDE sets loitering around Heuston. Sundays are full at the moment.

This dosnt mean that IE are doing a good job, they arent. It like BAC having only three buses on the 46A packed to the gills and slapping themselves on the back becfause they are obviously so successful.

With no real orders on the books it is going to be like this all the way till 2016 and beyond.

[James Shields]

Monday had the Mini Marathon, the Dockland's Maratime festival, some garden show in Phoenix Park and probably a few other events going on. Sunday service was just not good enough.

Also, as far as I could see, the Enterprise was running a normal weekday schedule, which meant for some odd train times, like a Drogheda train due to leave Connolly at 13:17 and an Enterprise at 13:20. I have no idea if they held the commuter to let the Enterprise go first, or if the Enterprise was stuck behind the whole way.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Originally Posted by lostcarpark

Also, as far as I could see, the Enterprise was running a normal weekday schedule.

Not a Bank Holiday in the North would be the reason for that I suppose.

[Mark Gleeson]

Just to confuse matters on a Bank Holiday a normal saturday timetable seems to apply on all intercity services from Heuston

[ThomasJ]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Just to confuse matters on a Bank Holiday a normal saturday timetable seems to apply on all intercity services from Heuston

And yet kildare services weren't even running to a sunday timetable. no excuse given!

I was on the 19.26 howth junction-drogheda service yesterday. it was a 4-car train and when i got on it it was packed. by the time it got the malahide people were doing their best to just barely get themselves inside the door of the train as i got off at malahide.

one positive was the rosslare train that terminates in connolly on a sunday/bank holiday, they ran it back in service as far as drogheda (or was it scheduled to run on the bank holiday?) it is a pity the same inititive could not have been used for the rest of the commuter services.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Yes well, we all know that places such as Portmarnock, Malahide, Skerries are ghost towns on Bank Holiday Weekends a fact that BAC and IE have particular faith in.