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Unread 13-12-2006, 17:47   #8
Thomas J Stamp
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I may be mixing things up here but I seem to remember Mark G, saying a while back that the Templemore stop would be removed from Dublin-Cork trains because the platforms are too short, the RSC won't permit the new Mk4s to stop there and any attempt from IE to stop MK4's in Templemore will lead to Mark making a complaint to the RSC. Now we have a P11 commitee member lobbying IE to stop trains in Templemore. I'm not getting at you Thomas just wondering what P11 policy is in relation to Templemore?
I'm on the Templemore Rail Users Group Commitee, which has nothing to do with Platform11.

P11 policy towards Templemore would be a simple non-downgrading of services in accordance with whatever the local action group (TTUG) wants; same applies to KRUG and Newbridge rail users group.

Platforms: TTUG has a committment from IE regarding the short platform (Cork side) to be lenghtend and a timescale for that.

At the moment, the Mk4's stop at Templemore going to Dublin (long platform) but dont going to Cork (because of the short Platform).

The priority is to ensure that passengers can get into and out of Dublin at times to allow them to work in Dublin. When we started talking we IE we were on the verge of losing that, now we have definite commitments that guarantee it, although we're not 100% happy with the proposals regarding evening services but we understand that it'll sorted out in Dec 07 Timetable and we have been given a departure time from Dublin in that timetable that is acceptable.

Our next goal is mid-morning services and we're getting somewhere there as well.

I'm relucutant to go into it any further. I dont care if its Cork, Limerick or The Moon where these trains originate or go to as long as it works. At the moment we dont have much of a Cork service (stopping in Templemore down bound) excpet I think the first one of the day, all other times you change at Thurles, a system that is to be regularised in the new timetable, all the triains eventually in Templemore will be Limerick ones, and you change at Thurles in a hub and spoke arraingement, the new timetable will be in effect a hybrid, Dec 07 will see the changeover to Hub and Spoke in full.

As for what Mr Mallow says, this article about 200kph running is nothing new it was debated here ages ago and has been going for months, only now he pops up with his Templemore comments, which have nothing to do with Templemore itself, but his hatred of the fact that the passangers are having a say in how his train set works.
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