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Unread 15-08-2013, 13:52   #1
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Not sure they will get Dublin-Cork down to 2 hours but they should be able to get it to 2h15m
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Unread 15-08-2013, 14:07   #2
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Non stop an ICR can nail 2:05, but that assumes perfect conditions of 100mph running save for the geometry restricted sections and only towards Cork. 2:15 is the best practical time.

There has been a significant change inside Irish Rail over the last 18 months were commercial people are now in charge of decisions.

That will mean a more hard line approach when it comes to cutting services were they don't make sense, WRC lost one service pair as a result.
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Yesterday’s Sunday Times (August 25th) had a truly awful piece by Larissa Nolan on Intercity Rail versus bus travel. Awful because the main point of the piece - the uncompetitive slow train times - was totally wrong in many cases. For example Dublin Limerick 3 hours by bus and 3 hours 10 minutes by train; Dublin-Waterford 2 hours 30 minutes by bus and 3 hours 15 minutes by train.

Maybe it takes 3 hours 10 minutes to Limerick via Nenagh or Athenry, or 3 hours 15 minutes to Waterford via Limerick Junction. I daresay the journey planner shows such journeys, but that does not exclude the lazy and sloppy journalism. There were other errors but the two examples above are particularly glaring. I presume that reading the PDF timetables and working out the times involved too much mental effort.
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Unread 26-08-2013, 16:41   #4
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The Sunday Times always has an agenda and I doubt that was down to laziness and/or sloppiness.
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Well, if it's part of an agenda, then it's plain lies.
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Unread 26-08-2013, 22:25   #6
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They may be taking times from the city centre, which doesn't necessarily suit everyone.
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Unread 27-08-2013, 08:24   #7
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The errors in the article were not consistent with "taking times from the city centre". They gave 2h 35m as the Dublin-Cork time. Also they totally omitted Belfast, by the way.

I suggest you read the article: it was truly dreadful, even by the standards of Irish Journalism. No excuses.
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Unread 27-08-2013, 11:49   #8
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wouldnt it be pay walled?
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wouldnt it be pay walled?
Unfortunately it is!
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