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Unread 11-02-2010, 10:16   #1
Colm Moore
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Default Galway-Limerick intermediate timetable

Did someone have a timetable for the intermediate stations from Galway-Limerick? I know that Galway, Athenry and Ennis-Limerick are listed publicly.
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Sixmilebridge is listed in the Dublin-Limerick/Ennis timetable

http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey...erick%2010.pdf
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A day after this thread appears here, a timetable appears on the Irish Rail website...

http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey...alway%2010.pdf
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Guys,

Sorry this may be a silly question but is the journey time on this route not really slow???
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Of course its slow, but no one listened when everyone was saying that as apparently it was anti west of Ireland.
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Guys,

Sorry this may be a silly question but is the journey time on this route not really slow???
Ennis - Gort by rail is ~20miles (its not more than 20 miles) and takes 28 minutes - speed: 43 miles per hour?
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The speeds are unbelievable really.

Aside from the 2 hours to get from Limerick to Galway, I've long thought that to be a success it would need to be part of a Galway-Limerick-Cork or Galway-Limerick-Waterford route. But the best times offered on these routes are 3 3/4 hours and 5 hours respectively. Both also involve 2 changes of train.

Between the speed and the lack of connectivity, you could get the impression that someone wants it to fail.
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A day after this thread appears here, a timetable appears on the Irish Rail website...

http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey...alway%2010.pdf
Anyone know what current passenger numbers are like for the 06:45 Ennis - Limerick? If this is well used, could I.E. not start the service from Gort? 06:15 Gort - Limerick. This would require the 06:00 Limerick - Galway service to start at least 30 minutes earlier. 08:39 arrival into Limerick is not the best arrival time into Limerick from stations north of Ennis for commuters (including students) - they still have to get from Colbert Station!

I know comparing the WRC and the Midleton line, is possibly like comparing chalk and cheese, due to population density, etc... BUT Midleton's initial service frequency (including arrival times in to Kent station) are one of the factors of its success (others being clockface timetable).

For a lot of people, the WRC will be a new service (not having experienced the last train services on the WRC). How can five services a day and this timetable make anyone want to get out of their cars?

Commuters need some form of flexibility: Someone commuting from Gort to Limerick everyday decides to take the train - the need to make sure that work/college times are within 08:39 - 18:05, otherwise the train is no use to them - flexitime does not seem to be part of I.E.

I am very much pro-rail, unfortunately I.E. does not seem to see the possible potential of this new line.
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