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16.50 Waterford to Dublin will no longer operate
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I'm sure Irish Rails excuse for dropping it because of low demand.
I wonder does 25 minutes stopped at stations waiting for train corssings have anything to do with it. 10 in Muine Bheag, 5 in Carlow, 10 in Athy.
It puts an end to daily students using the services from Carlow to Kildare, Athy. 18.15 departure from Carlow was ideal.
If it was moved to 16.20 ex Waterford (17.30 ex Carlow) it would be of real benefit to people.
As posted above every servce will contuine to stop in stations for 3 or 4 minutes as IR have done nothing to address this.
18.05 on Sundays has being arriving in between 20.15-20.20 for the last year so where is the shorter journey times coming from. Notice how they allow an extra 5 minutes to make sure it arrives on time, not on any other Sunday service.
If the 09.10 was going in the other direction there would be plenty of demand but they pick an easy target to drop, good for bid if they cut over the west. Only good news for Waterford line is the DFS is to resume after being dropping in July.
I prodict a revised timetable will take affect by July 2013, Galway will not fill all the evening services in a million years, expect the 19.20 from Cork to go again. Cork schedule will not be able to run to 2h35m ever unless ICR take over.
I wonder how much of a handout CIE will get on Wednesday.