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For Kildare Dublin there is little to choose over a 29000 and a ICR on a stopping service. 29000 is faster off the line and in terms of door open/close cycle
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Fair point but the volume of passengers even at peak hours isn't anything significant on the Kildare route to require dwell to be reduced.
From a passenger prospective many commuters from Nass-Portlaoise hate getting the regular Portlaoise commuter services add 2700 or whatever and you make the service worse.
The 17.20/17.55 services are prime examples of services of heavily underused services and the 17.20 could be curtailed to Hazelhatch and the 17.55 cancelled tomorrow and have minimal impact. Would imagine a curtailed 18.25 service to Hazelhatch would also see no impact on customers.
If IE did the above adjustments they could then add a 17.40 to Portlaoise (Nass first stop) and easily keep costs down as they could get away with cutting capacity on 17.25/17.30/17.35 services and remove Nass and/or Newbridge/Kildare respectively. That gives those passenger a 30 minute service between 17.10-18.10.
Easy for IE to cut costs and keep all passengers types happy but I suspect the next timetable will not see much change from current Intercity/Commuter scheduling.
It will be interesting to see how GCD services will change such passenger travel patterns and views on services and it will be a question who wins current Luas/Intercity for Nass on or GCD commuter.
Around 50-55 minutes Nass-CDG or 15 minutes Nass-Heuston. Timings based on current commuter service to Nass (average 30-35 minutes), 10 minutes to Connolly, 10 minutes to GCD and the 15 minutes to Nass is based on fully 100mph between Hazelhatch-Nass (18 minutes currently scheduled).