Irish rail route passenger numbers

[Inniskeen]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Lack of a motorway helps

Dublin Belfast numbers really should be on a par with Cork but due to a combination of poor frequency, slow journey and the lack of historical flows of people due the border its lagging behind

There isn't that big a difference between daily numbers on the Dublin/Belfast and Dublin/Cork services if the recent NTA census is to be believed. It would appear that boardings at Cork are 1885 northbound with arrivals being 1795 from the Mallow direction. It seems likely that several hundred of these passengers are travelling to and from Mallow, a pattern that is clear to travelers on the 1725 from Cork to Dublin which empties substantially at Mallow.

Again using the NTA census as a source the daily numbers using Belfast services & crossing the border the numbers appear to be 1477 northbound and 1322 southbound.

Of course the cross-border service is only a small proportion of business on the Belfast line, the entire line (excluding DART) handles close to 10 million passenger journeys per annum.

The railway could be massively more significant along the north east corridor but for this to happen there will need to be faster and more frequent services. At a minimum strategic additional physical track will be required to give a much greater degree of separation from the 20 mph DART services which are such an impediment to a competitive longer distance commuter and cross-border service.

[Ireland trains]

About 1.525 million passengers used the enterprise in 2017 if i did thr maths correctly from the 2016+2017 census

[Goods]

Article in the Indo today showing that over 45m journeys on rail in most recent figures and a 6% increase continuing, proving the point that the public will use rail if the service is adequate and good value. We had been told for years that IE was unsuitable for rail as it didnt have the volume of passengers to make it viable. Thankfully not all lines were ripped up and we still have a potential rail service in place. There are still options to link the likes of Navan into Dublin and use semi idle lines to shift rail traffic from the busy lines and begin a double track to Mullingar. These and reopening the Tuam and Claremorris line in the west will have positive knock on effect in providing commuter options elsewhere including into traffic blocked Galway.
Reopening the Phoenix park tunnel has increased options around Dublin and IE rail had to be dragged screaming to the table to accept the inevitable on that vital city transport asset. Time for IE rail to start thinking big and meet the public demand.

[Jamie2k9]

2018 passengers numbers on Waterford route were 1.38m up 9.5% (120k) passing the previous record of 1.37m in 2007. Capacity likely up 0.5% if even that.

https://beat102103.com/news/waterfor...nger-journeys/

[Ireland trains]

Kildare line: 2.9m up 10.6%
Maynooth line 4.38m up 1.6%
https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/h...dare-line.html
Maynooth and PPT line will likley see bigger increase this year as a result of more off peak trains.

Is heuston-kildare section of waterford service counted as dublin-waterford or kildare commuter.

Does anyone have statistics of dublin-cork/Belfast/Galway/rosslare for 2018

Iv noticed that since timetable change a westport service calls at hazelhatch, does this use platform 4 or go onto slow line using platform 3

[Jamie2k9]

Iv noticed that since timetable change a westport service calls at hazelhatch, does this use platform 4 or go onto slow line using platform 3

Which one?, none should be calling there. The Up/Down fast platforms are signed out of use so would only be used in an emergency/disruption.

[Ireland trains]

Apologies
Its acually a service from athlone and iv just realised platform 4 at hazelhatch is down slow, not down fast