Athenry-Galway Commuter Service in 2009
Are the planned commuter services between Athenry and Galway in 2009 simply going to be the new services between Galway-Limerick stopping in Athenry starting next year or will there be more Galway-Athenry services in 2009?
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I emailed IE a week ago to get more details, but haven't had a response yet. |
There will be a train every 2 hours between Dublin and Galway, without hourly at peak time
Any extra services are likely to be Limerick - Athenry - Galway, the single track line makes it very difficult to increase beyond a total of 3 trains per hour |
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By the way, what is "peak time" on an intercity jourrney? |
hourly at peak sorry about that
presume it means 3 departures between 16:45 and 19:15 to Galway and three trains towards Dublin in the morning, 2 before 9 and one shortly after |
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Key issue is trains towards Dublin are going to be leaving in the 6am to 8am bracket which will somewhat conflict with trains going the other way realistically you can't get more than 3 trains per hour between Athenry and Galway not matter how you play the order of trains
From a business perspective a pre 9am arrival into Galway from Dublin is desireable |
A passing loop at a possible station at Oranmore would change that dramaticly.
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Not really just brings the number to 4 trains per hour, but increased journey times as a side effect
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just to be clear - is that 4 trains per hour per direction or 4 trains per hour full stop?
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4 in total
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assuming no passing loop an hourly intercity train each way at peak leaves only one commuter slot every hour - not much better than what's there as is |
The real problem is you can't run two trains in the same direction on a single track route with the exception of Bray Greystones
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Any plans to double track the route? I assume it was originally built as a double line.
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Still awaiting confirmation, but its impossible to deliver the service talked about without 2 tracks to at least Oranmore, realistically Athenry
Dublin services save a number of minutes as well when complete |
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A quick look at Gmaps pedometer shows the distance needing doubling from Athenry-Galway as 13 miles only |
Standard one train in section, it could be upgraded but the solution is two tracks
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