Well something needs to be done about this service. The evening punctuality is always a mess from October to December. This train has to cross at every available point except one between Dromod and Maynooth so if anything goes slightly wrong in the evening there is no recovering. The situation now is that they are just pushing too much traffic down a single line to support the current timetable.
Maybe they could look at converting one of the effectively empty workings into a later Longford train seeing as how they are finished with the set for the night anyway.
Another idea would be to either abandon the clockface timetable for the 17:00 and leave about 30 minutes earlier or later later which would at least clear it from having to cross with a couple of trains.
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