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[23-25/10/2010] October Bank Holiday 2010

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Luas - Dublin City Marathon - 25 October 2010

http://www.luas.ie/dublin-city-marat...h-october.html

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Dublin City Marathon 25th October
21 October 2010

The Dublin City Marathon will take place on Monday 25th October, 2010. It will impact on the Luas operations at O’Connell St/Abbey Street junction. To facilitate the race the junction will be closed from 08.45am to 9.45am. Services will operate on the Red Line from Tallaght to Smithfield only between these times. There will be no service between Smithfield and The Point until 10.00am.

[23-24/10/2010] Works affecting all trains operating through Portlaoise

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=930

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Resignalling Works : Portlaoise, Sat 23rd and Sun 24th Oct by Corporate Communications

Resignalling Works: Portlaoise - Sat 23rd and Sun 24th Oct

Please Note: A 10/20 minute delay may occur.

Due to Resignalling Works at Portlaoise, the following arrangements will apply:

Saturday 23rd October, 2010

22.10 Heuston to Portlaoise service will be a bus transfer from Heuston to Portlaoise.

Sunday 24th October, 2010

08.25 Heuston to Tralee service will be bus transfers from Heuston to Thurles and by train from Thurles to Tralee. Buses will depart Heuston at 08.25 hrs. Train will depart Thurles at 10.20 hrs.

10.50 Mallow/Cork is deferred to 11.25 hrs.
12.10 Cork/Tralee is deferred at Mallow until 12.50 hrs.

10.00 Heuston to Cork service will be bus transfers from Heuston to Thurles and by train from Thurles to Cork. Buses will depart Heuston at 10.00 hrs. Train will depart Thurles at 12.00 hrs.
08.30 Cork to Heuston service will operate to Thurles only with bus transfers from Thurles to Heuston. Buses will depart Thurles at 10.00 hrs.
10.30 Cork/Heuston is deferred to 10.45 hrs.

08.35 Limerick/Heuston will operate to Thurles only with bus transfers from Thurles to Heuston. Buses to depart Thurles at 09.30 hrs.
10.13 Limerick Jctn./Limerick is deferred to 10.45 hrs.
10.35 Limerick/Heuston is deferred to 11.00 hrs.
10.55 Limerick/Limerick Jctn. is deferred to 11.15 hrs.
11.47 Limerick Jctn/Limerick is deferred to 12.17 hrs.

Iarnrod Eireann regret any inconvenience this essential work may cause.

[23-25/10/2010] Works affecting all trains operating to/from Connolly & Tara St

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=929

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23rd-25th October: works affecting all trains operating to/from Connolly & Tara St by Corporate Communications

Due to major infrastructure works between Pearse and north of Connolly across the bank holiday weekend Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th October, alternative arrangements will apply to all services operating to and from Connolly and Tara Street stations.

Full timetable details are available for all routes by searching journey details at www.irishrail.ie

The following is a summary of service alterations:

DART

Services are suspended between Clontarf Road and Pearse Stations.

Northside services will operate between Howth/Malahide and Clontarf Road only.

Southside services will operate between Bray/Greystones and Pearse only.

Customers travelling from Northside to city centre should avail of Dublin Bus services (130 via Clontarf Rd, 29A, 31, 31B, 32, 32B, 32A via Howth Rd). Dublin Bus will accept rail tickets.

Northern Commuter

A limited service will operate between Dundalk/Drogheda and Connolly Station only.

Maynooth / Dunboyne M3 Commuter

A limited service will operate between Maynooth/M3 Parkway and Drumcondra or Connolly Station only.

Belfast Enterprise

Full services will operate, with delays of 10-15 minutes.

Dublin-Rosslare Europort

Dublin to Rosslare Europort: Services will operate from Pearse to Rosslare Europort only. Buses will transfer customers from Connolly to Pearse 20 minutes prior to normal train departure time.

Rosslare Europort to Dublin: Services will operate Rosslare Europort to Bray / Pearse. Bus transfers will operate from Bray or Pearse to Connolly.

Saturday 23rd October: 12.05 Connolly to Arklow is cancelled,
14.35 Arklow to Maynooth is cancelled.

Dublin-Sligo

A limited service will operate, with some services involving bus transfers between Maynooth and Connolly.

Iarnród Éireann apologises for the inconvenience this essential work may cause.

Irish Rail - October Bank Holiday Timetable

October Bank Holiday Timetable http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/printed_timetable_pdfs/2010/October%20Timetable%2010.pdf

Substantial disruption likely due to the Marathon on Monday.

Gets more confusing!

There is now a large sign up at Clonsilla saying drumcondra will be closed for the duration of the works.

That's not what the online notice above or timetable is saying !:confused:

I don't get why the Luas has to close from Smithfield to the Point for this. Surely they could run to Four Courts or Jervis, and keep a service going between the Point and Abbey Street?

Point - Connolly is no problem operate

The turnback at Smithfield is only setup to operate outbound, similarly Abbey Street only works outbound as well

When I was getting on the maynooth train In Connolly I couldn't believe the amount of people asking was this train going to raheny or clontarf road

When the train was leaving Connolly there was people still standing on platform 7 despite the fact that maynooth trains were the only trains using platform 7

All Drogheda trains are departing from platforms 1-4, normally 3 over the weekend

The main information display on the concourse is clearly showing that. Numerous other notices around listing the disruption.

Was also in the Metro/Herald on Friday

City works disrupt Dart and train services

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...281825712.html

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City works disrupt Dart and train services

DART AND train services to and from Connolly and Tara Street stations in Dublin will be disrupted this bank holiday weekend due to works on rail infrastructure.

A limited commuter service will operate from Connolly to Sligo, Maynooth, Dunboyne, Dundalk and Drogheda. A full service to Belfast will operate with slight delays.

Dart services will run between Howth, Malahide and Clontarf Road, while city southside services will operate between Bray, Greystones and Pearse Street. Buses will link Connolly to Pearse Street for Rosslare-bound passengers.