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Originally Posted by joey
I think the works at Riellys and Ashtown level crossings is now finished, a re-surfacing job on the road. They just trickle past croke park and into connolly. Certainly on the way out to Maynooth headed for Sligo it a slow run.
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Irish Rail don't really do speed, especially out of Dublin.
Rosslare line, everything crawls to Greystones, really, really slowly.
Belfast line, Enterprise and limited stop services routinely take up to 30 minutes to cover the nine miles from Connolly to Malahide due to a combination of bad order track/points, poor scheduling, inflexible track layouts and Irish Rail’s “slowest train first” operations policy.
Sligo line, really slow to Maynooth due to a combination of temporary and permanent speed restrictions and poor scheduling. Non-stop to/from Maynooth should take no more than 21 minutes but frequently takes 30 minutes or more.
Cork line, despite totally renewing the Heuston station area and widening the route between Cherryorchard and Hazelhatch, trains crawl to and from Inchicore and typically take longer to travel from Heuston to Hazelhatch and vice versa than was the case twenty years ago.