Faster Journey Times Next Year
 

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...-29500699.html

Not sure they will get Dublin-Cork down to 2 hours but they should be able to get it to 2h15m

Non stop an ICR can nail 2:05, but that assumes perfect conditions of 100mph running save for the geometry restricted sections and only towards Cork. 2:15 is the best practical time.

There has been a significant change inside Irish Rail over the last 18 months were commercial people are now in charge of decisions.

That will mean a more hard line approach when it comes to cutting services were they don't make sense, WRC lost one service pair as a result.

Yesterday’s Sunday Times (August 25th) had a truly awful piece by Larissa Nolan on Intercity Rail versus bus travel. Awful because the main point of the piece - the uncompetitive slow train times - was totally wrong in many cases. For example Dublin Limerick 3 hours by bus and 3 hours 10 minutes by train; Dublin-Waterford 2 hours 30 minutes by bus and 3 hours 15 minutes by train.

Maybe it takes 3 hours 10 minutes to Limerick via Nenagh or Athenry, or 3 hours 15 minutes to Waterford via Limerick Junction. I daresay the journey planner shows such journeys, but that does not exclude the lazy and sloppy journalism. There were other errors but the two examples above are particularly glaring. I presume that reading the PDF timetables and working out the times involved too much mental effort.

The Sunday Times always has an agenda and I doubt that was down to laziness and/or sloppiness.

Well, if it's part of an agenda, then it's plain lies.

They may be taking times from the city centre, which doesn't necessarily suit everyone.

The errors in the article were not consistent with "taking times from the city centre". They gave 2h 35m as the Dublin-Cork time. Also they totally omitted Belfast, by the way.

I suggest you read the article: it was truly dreadful, even by the standards of Irish Journalism. No excuses.

wouldnt it be pay walled?

Unfortunately it is!