15-08-2013, 13:52 | #1 |
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Faster Journey Times Next Year
http://www.independent.ie/business/i...-29500699.html
Not sure they will get Dublin-Cork down to 2 hours but they should be able to get it to 2h15m |
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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26-08-2013, 16:18 | #3 |
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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. |
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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26-08-2013, 18:05 | #5 |
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Well, if it's part of an agenda, then it's plain lies.
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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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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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wouldnt it be pay walled?
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