http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=880

timetable booklets available from connolly

This is pretty prescient. Surely there is a market for connecting buses from Navan, enabling passengers to bypass the tolls.

Heaven forbid, you could even sell through tickets.

Or did they not build anywhere for buses to stop in the car park?..

Bus Eireann still haven't got back to us despite two requests

There are several bus bays provided for at Pace/M3

Thanks. If BE don't do anything, I hope a private operator does.

Where exactly is the M3 Parkway station.

I looked on Google Maps, but not only does it not have the station, it doesn't even have the M3.

Its in Pace about 3 miles north of Dunboyne before the turnoff for Fairyhouse

Its in bing maps, well the sat image shows the station underconstruction

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53...om=16&layers=M

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=sx5...21&lvl=1&sty=b - these images are of various dates, so if you move about, you see different stages of construction.

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,701723,743812,6 - access is off the medium sized roundabout to the west of the motorway interchange. If you look at the historic layer, you can see the original railway.

Meath County Council are meant to be working with Irish Rail in improving pedestrian access.

Bus Eireann have confirmed that all route 111/112 buses will call at M3 Parkway from Sept 3rd onwards

Dunboyne railway line reopens
 

PDF Timetable now available
 

http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1283360532-111.pdf

The PDF timetable for same is now available. Hard copy timetable leaflets, if not already available, should be available at Busáras soon.

111 is the Athboy/Trim-Dublin route and 112 the Granard - Athboy/Trim - Dublin route.

And...
http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey...rkwayBuses.pdf

Good to see this integration but it's needed across the whole country.

Better would be IE running its own buses to Navan, Trim etc. with through fares. Nah, this is Ireland...

I used to use the Granard bus years ago and back then it used to let passengers off on O'Connell street. If it still does, I can't imagine there would be much takers for the train transfer particularly if it costs more.

That being said, the journey time is pretty good if you were using this bus route and wanted to go to docklands. 15 minutes running time from Clonsilla to Docklands instead of 24 to Connolly is pretty impressive but I suppose it is a bit useless if you need to connect with the DART or go into town.

If only they could do the same express trick for the Longford trains but keep them going to Connolly. I've never understood why they can't make these just stop at Clonsilla and Dromcondra. If they did that, 4 cars would be plenty for the 6:15 from Longford which has tumbleweeds blowing through it before Maynooth. This same train goes down in the evening with less than 10% occupancy after Maynooth.

Fare from Dunboyne to Clonsilla
 

So how much is it from Dunboyne to Clonsilla one way - €2.30 as in Short Hop Zone?

Should be 2.00 or 2.30 single

IE have not published the fares matrix for intermediate journeys yet

and here are the bus connection details in the dublin city centre-docklands area
http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey...landsBuses.pdf

Two things:

1. After the match tonight, people looking to head to dunboyne arrived in Clonsilla. Had to break the bad news to them!

2. Timetable notice at Clonsilla still showing the pre September 3rd timetable

Seems it was to be called Pace

I think "Pace M3" or "M3 Pace" would have beeb a better name.

There is Little Pace a few km away, but I don't think people would confuse them.