Maynooth trains no longer serving Tara or Pearse at weekends

n97 mini

Just to let people know that with the upcoming timetable change the weekend services are being downgraded. Instead of all trains terminating and beginning in Pearse they will only go to Connolly instead. You'll need to get a DART if you want to use Tara or Pearse now.

There are other minor alterations during the week with some time changes and some off peak weekday trains only serving Connolly.

Changes start this coming Sunday, the 9th.

New timetable here:
http://www.irishrail.ie/media/14_m3_parkway-longford_1.pdf

Davexirl

n97 mini wrote: »

Just to let people know that with the upcoming timetable change the weekend services are being downgraded. Instead of all trains terminating and beginning in Pearse they will only go to Connolly instead. You'll need to get a DART if you want to use Tara or Pearse now.

There are other minor alterations during the week with some time changes and some off peak weekday trains only serving Connolly.

Changes start this coming Sunday, the 9th.

New timetable here:
http://www.irishrail.ie/media/14_m3_parkway-longford_1.pdf

Thank you for the heads up, I never spotted that when I looked at it first. This will take a bit of getting used to. It must all be changing to accommodate the increased Dart schedule.

BaronVon

It makes sense in fairness, you're never waiting too long at Connolly for a Dart.

L1011

There's a few edge cases where the wait is long enough

There's *another* timetable recast in December, that one should bring significantly increased off-peak and weekend services and I can see some of the trains terminating short at Connolly being stopped if there's enough uproar.

n97 mini

infacteh wrote: »

It makes sense in fairness, you're never waiting too long at Connolly for a Dart.

On Saturdays under the new timetable the average wait time at Connolly is probably about 8 minutes according to the printed timetable. Unfortunately the online journey planner shows wait times of up to 23 minutes.

n97 mini

L1011 wrote: »

There's *another* timetable recast in December, that one should bring significantly increased off-peak and weekend services and I can see some of the trains terminating short at Connolly being stopped if there's enough uproar.

Going on twitter comments the new trains will all terminate at Connolly too. I think terminating them there now when there is clearly no operational need is to condition us to stopping short.

L1011

Current plan definitely is for them all to. Freeing up paths over the loopline but it still blocks paths in and out of Connolly so its not much benefit and some shouting may change their mind.

highdef

Will the Maynooth trains terminate at platform 7 on weekends? Southbound through services/DARTs could then use platform 5 and northbound use platform 6.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the above would result in no conflicts between through services and Maynooth services terminating at Connolly and would mean there should never be any annoying waiting period on the approach to the Northern Line near North Strand as the train awaits a free path....unless of course another train is already occupying platform 7.

deezell

What a joke. You must now catch a Dart 6 minutes earlier from Pearse etc. to arrive in Connolly for afternoon trains. E.g. 15.38 to Maynooth requires arriving in Connolly on Dart at 15.32, having departed Pearse obviously 6 minutes earlier than a direct Maynooth service. Pearse to Maynooth now the guts of an Hour.
Also Sligo trains all departing 5 minutes earlier on the hour, but preceding commuter trains stay at the same departure times so the Sligo trains are doomed to trundle slowly behind them, with an extra 5 minutes run time added to the journey. Yesterday's 14.47 left Connolly at 14.58 as it had to come from the north and turn around, instead of its usual arrival from Pearse. The 3.05 Sligo then left at the new time of 3.00, and tracked the commuter at about 20 mph until Maynooth. Some intercity service! These sligo trains were always delayed by being too close to the preceding commuters. Why add a further 5 minutes of agony?

n97 mini

highdef wrote: »

Will the Maynooth trains terminate at platform 7 on weekends?

Sunday gone was all platform 4, but Sunday coming is all Platform 7 according to the journey planner.

deezell wrote: »

Pearse to Maynooth now the guts of an Hour.

Travelling off peak from Leixlip Confey to the city centre, the 66A is now noticeably quicker than the train.