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17-04-2012, 13:36 | #1 |
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sorry to bring this up again but has anyone confirmed what IE are up to on the Saturdays of the closures, i.e. since the 1705 ex Limerick is a bus are they shunting ex Dublin to the Branch to do the 1915 ex Ballyb?
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17-04-2012, 14:11 | #2 |
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presumably so, in fact its not that big a diversion to run a bus from the 1800 along the route portlaoise/borris-in-ossory/rathdowney/templemore/thurles it will pass ballybrophy station that way.
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18-04-2012, 07:16 | #3 |
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E10 single from dublin to any of the nenagh line stations!! or visa versa
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can you enlighten me? its not on the IE wesbite, you cannot book online. its not advertised in Roscrea Station, day return fare on monday, inclding LUAS/Bus, was €27.70. over to you. |
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18-04-2012, 19:49 | #5 |
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you can book online from nenagh somehow on the website ! - search Dublin heuston to any Nenagh line station :10 euro! it is advertised on Tipp FM
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18-04-2012, 20:10 | #6 |
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I tried booking Dublin-Nenagh for April 25: all single fares were €10. This included at least 2 journeys via Limerick. If you try to book Dublin-Limerick on the same day, the Dublin-Limerick Journey is €20 or €30 (approx).
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18-04-2012, 20:27 | #7 |
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Having gone through the online booking process Nenagh - Dublin is bookable online for €10. The system would have allowed me to book for tomorrow morning's early bird through train and collect my ticket at Nenagh station. On the face of it it seems to suggest a ticket vending machine has been installed. A more likely scenario is that the station booking office has those A4 ticket sheets which were widespread two or three years ago so that they can pop a sheet in the printer and print off the ticket. Then it's just a matter of pressing the perforations to get the ticket from the sheet. If this is indeed the case for Nenagh ticketing it should be possible to do likewise from Roscrea.
In the reverse direction it is possible to book Heuston to any Nenagh line station for a tenner. So €22/€23 return (including mandatory transaction fee of €2 plus possible extra €1 fee depending on card type used). All very well this being available but would suggest the group make appropriate representation to IÉ and insist on the promotion being put on the website and Facebook etc...Tipp FM will tell customers originating along the line but the hypothetical Aunty Mary in Dublin thinking of taking a trip down to the in-laws or the casual Dublin-based day tripper is unlikely to know of it. A few posters should be put up around Heuston advertising this fare. Hope this will be of help. PS: 25% off online bookings until midnight tonight. Use the following code FB1350 (Source IÉ Facebook page). (Had a scout around the forum but this doesn't seem to have been mentioned already). Only saw it a few minutes ago. Last edited by Traincustomer : 18-04-2012 at 21:42. Reason: addition of material |
18-04-2012, 22:18 | #8 |
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Given the numbers there really isn't anything which is going to make a change sufficient to drum up business.
For legal reasons we cannot speculate as to how this came about but clearly a higher power is pulling strings. The 10 euro via Limerick will be knocked off the system ASAP
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