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Originally Posted by Inniskeen
A hypothetical one - 3 car ICR is a little too small for a few of the Cork services, six-car ICR way too big 95% of the time. IR certainly had plans to re-configure the ICR fleet although this idea may well have been abandoned.
As regards abandoning the MK4 fleet, why would this be different from mothballing an arguably superior Mk3 fleet barely half way through it's life cycle.
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not just hypotectical, but as far as i am aware impossible, as you cant join up a 22k in that way. also, you are buggering up the diagram of another set.
as for mothballing the mark4 - its a heavily marketed branded product, same as enterprise. it is occasionally replaced out of neccessity like the DD sets, but thats all. it is also a third of the age that the mark3 were oin their withdrawal, and the mark3 was identified badly by the potential customer as it was the same on the outside as mark2d and cravens. See the Sligo saga for a prime example.
Also, if you look at the pictures of the interior of the mark3's they do, to todays eyes, look as dated as an edition of smash hits from 1988.
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Originally Posted by Jamie2k9
Noticed that IE are still keeping the 19.05 connection to Nenagh in the new year. Yesterday there was 3 passengers on the connection from BallyB of which two were traveling for free. Is the connection off the 17.05 to Tralee better used?
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in my experiance the loadings from the 17.05 were slightly better (as in four-six) but there was a large load who just got into their cars and drove off. Not surprising when it is actually quicker to drive to roscrea (and indeed any other stop) from ballybrophy station than using the train.
That 18.10-18.20 ish connection was lacking in that it initially had to dwell in Roscrea to allow the 19.05 get clearance somewhere along the line, which was amazingly annoying. I am talking of 15-20 min dwells here. In the end they got it to hang around around Brophy till the cork train came and went, which in effect ment that you had two trains within 45 mins of each other departing.
In the end the tralee train (which used to stop first in templemore) will still have a large following as it leaves at a nice time and gets in for 6pm and you can drive home from it to arrive at a reasonable hour.