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comcor · 07-09-2011, 09:23

76km by rail. So in effect you are double punishing people by adding both time and money when the railway line isn't direct.

I'm actually surprised there isn't a special fare between the two towns as a legacy of when there was a direct railway line between them. It can only have closed in the 60s.

In hindsight, it may have been more desirable to have kept the Thurles-Clonmel link rather than Limerick Junction-Clonmel one. It would have provided the possibility of Dublin direct or at least with a better connection than at present. Clonmel-Dublin is actually poorly served by all forms of public transport.

07-09-2011, 09:23	#8
comcor Really Regular Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Cork-Dublin, Cork Commuter and occasionally DART and Dublin-Wexford Posts: 855	76km by rail. So in effect you are double punishing people by adding both time and money when the railway line isn't direct. I'm actually surprised there isn't a special fare between the two towns as a legacy of when there was a direct railway line between them. It can only have closed in the 60s. In hindsight, it may have been more desirable to have kept the Thurles-Clonmel link rather than Limerick Junction-Clonmel one. It would have provided the possibility of Dublin direct or at least with a better connection than at present. Clonmel-Dublin is actually poorly served by all forms of public transport.