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Unread 04-06-2009, 08:39   #2
Thomas Ralph
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You can contact RailGourmet through its website at www.railgourmet.com, although I imagine all you'll be told is that there was an exceptionally high level of demand on that train.

Standard class reservations are only available online, at a cost of €5 single/€8 return (cheaper if you pay by Laser card). However, they can be bought up to half an hour before departure and are collectable within five or ten minutes, so if you can get mobile or kiosk internet access (and as far as I'm aware there are internet kiosks and WiFi in Ceannt station) you can buy them that way.

What you get for your money in first class depends heavily on which train happens to operate your service. Some trains have 2/1 seating, some have power sockets at each seat, some have complimentary tea/coffee/juice/newspapers, some have at-seat meal service, and so on. But outside the Dublin-Cork and Dublin-Belfast services, it's a crapshoot as to what there will actually be on the particular train you're using. It may bear proportion to the cost of the upgrade, which could be €12, €20, €31.50, or €34.
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