Getting to Athboy from Navan

Cannon_fodder

What options are there for getting to Athboy from Navan?

I believe a bus goes from Navan to Trim, from there a bus goes from Trim to Athboy, but the bus to Trim arrives 10 minutes after the bus leaves Trim for Athboy!

Any other optons?

Andru93

Cannon_fodder wrote: »

What options are there for getting to Athboy from Navan?

I believe a bus goes from Navan to Trim, from there a bus goes from Trim to Athboy, but the bus to Trim arrives 10 minutes after the bus leaves Trim for Athboy!

Any other optons?

Your only option is 189 to Trim and 111 on to Athboy. There is a 40 minutes wait between the two buses though.

The 189 use to flip flop between Trim and Athboy but that functionally was taken out a year or two ago.

horseburger

Cannon_fodder wrote: »

What options are there for getting to Athboy from Navan?

I believe a bus goes from Navan to Trim, from there a bus goes from Trim to Athboy, but the bus to Trim arrives 10 minutes after the bus leaves Trim for Athboy!

Any other optons?

It is the 190 Bus Eireann service that covers Drogheda, Navan and Trim. I think in November 2013, the 189 service was altered, and the Drogheda - Navan - Trim route started to be served by the 190, which has a more frequent connection, with hourly services between Drogheda, Navan and Trim on Sundays and Bank Holidays as well as Monday to Saturday.

here are details, outlined in a November 2013 press release, by Bus Eireann, about the alterations.

http://buseireann.ie/news.php?id=1394&month=Nov.

This press release, dated August 2016, by Bus Eireann details further alterations to the 190 service

http://www.buseireann.ie/news_timetable.php?id=2128&month=Aug

This change also meant that Duleek - which was served on the 189 - was no longer served directly to Navan. Another change is that anyone in Navan, going to Laytown by bus, now have to get a separate service to and from Drogheda and Laytown. A certain number of the 189 services had served Laytown, to and from Drogheda.

But the advantage of the separate services is that they are more frequent, for example the D1 Drogheda Laytown service is every 30 minutes as opposed to the 189 which was hourly.
http://www.buseireann.ie/timetables/1472130681-D1.pdf

The 189 service, to and from Drogheda, Navan and Trim, used to be every two hours on Sundays and Bank Holidays. The 190 service is hourly seven days a week.

The 190 services to and from Navan to Trim run every hour.

From Trim, the 111 Bus Eireann service operates hourly during the day and there are some extra services to and from Dublin.

There are 111 bus services from Trim to Dublin at 7.24am and 7.44am. There are 111 bus services from Dublin to Trim at 4.15pm, 4.45pm, 5.30pm, 5.45pm, 6.15pm and 6.45pm.

Unfortunately, as you have mentioned, the 190 or 111 services are not scheduled to facilitate a convenient connection between Trim and Athboy, if you get the 190 service from Drogheda or Navan, with the 190 services from Navan scheduled to arrive in Trim, after the 111 services are scheduled to leave Trim to go to Athboy.

http://www.buseireann.ie/timetables/1472130608-190.pdf
http://www.buseireann.ie/timetables/1478883514-111.pdf
http://www.buseireann.ie/timetables/1472130681-D1.pdf
http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1470227575-189.pdf

Cannon_fodder

Thanks for that Horseburger, the sooner she learns to drive and get around the better! The transport system is less than ideal in Meath

horseburger

Cannon_fodder wrote: »

Thanks for that Horseburger, the sooner she learns to drive and get around the better! The transport system is less than ideal in Meath

Indeed, you are correct.

While the Cavan, Virginia, Kells, Navan and Ratoath Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne areas are very well covered with regular services to and from Dublin, with the 109, 109A and 103 services, there are areas, and communities in Meath, with no public transport at all. There are other parts of Meath and Cavan, with last bus services to and from Dublin, and last services between towns and villages in Meath, and last services between locations in both Cavan, as well as in Monaghan and Louth, that are just too early, that people in those areas, will rarely use public transport.

On a related issue, with the calls for a train service between Navan and Dublin, I wonder how it would operate.

Would it be as frequent as every 30 minutes to and from Navan and Dublin, in the way the 109 service is currently, throughout most of the day?

How late would it operate?

For example, if it did not operate that late each night, to and from Dublin, would it be much advantage over the bus services, considering that Navan, Kells, Dunshaughlin, Ratoath and Ashbourne have services, to and from Dublin, as well as options to connect to and from intermediate towns like Ashbourne and Ratoath, operating 24 hours - between the Bus Eireann 109, 109A and 103 and 105 services, and the Ashbourne Connect service - since the 109A began operating a 24 hour service, at the end of July 2016?

What price would the tickets be if a Navan Dublin rail line is developed? (The fares on the train between Cork and Dublin are more expensive than the fares on the bus services, operated by Bus Eireann, Go Bus and Aircoach)

There are bus services, operated by the various private coach companies, like Aircoach, JJ Kavanaghs, Dublin Coach, City Link, Go Bus, as well as bus services by Bus Eireann, and Translink Ulster Bus, that operate throughout the country (and The North / Northern Ireland) to and from Dublin, much later than the last train services each day, to and from the same locations, and Dublin.

http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1425902151-109.pdf
http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1473263565-109A.pdf
http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1470225086-103.pdf
http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1470225287-103X.pdf
http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1470226109-105.pdf
http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1470226273-105X.pdf
http://www.yougo.ie/#timetables