[Mark Gleeson]

Given the current rolling stock the best service possible on the Kildare local line is 1 train per hour in each direction, more than one an hour would be very very difficult, it would have been easier last year since you could turn the 2 four coach trains into 4 2 coach ones. Before anyone asks out of the 146 railcars allocated to Dublin 134-138 are required each day which means zero spare

so its 18:35, 19:45, 20:35, 21:45, 22:45

We have done some serious work on timetabling and hourly is as good as it will go since it has to fit around intercity services and we are taking account of the hourly service to Cork, for anything seriously better you are looking at Kildare Route project

We have developed a hourly service with a extra train every second hour however this only really works between 9am and 4pm, since you have use of all the trains in Dublin which arrived during the morning rush until they are sent back again during the evening rush

Irish Rail have refused a later train than the 22:45 (Its not in the 2007 tt) and have refused to run the 22:45 from Pearse despite it being possible which would have made it much easier to get home. That more or less captures Iarnrod Eireann's attitude its their train set and they will run their trains when they feel like it, eg Clonsilla has the same service more or less in the evenings and there are no restrictions on running a train every 30 minutes other than lazy management in IE

Don't get us started on the Sunday service.............