Plans to end direct rail services between Wexford and Dublin

Never heard why.

But without it there’s not a hope of longer trains on the southeastern line unless they don’t stop at certain stations.

Slightly off topic, but as recently as the 90s or maybe even early 2000s there used to be long special trains to the west after big GAA matches where they would use older fleet and trains that were longer than some of the station platforms. You'd literally have (usually drunk) passengers trying to get off at Ballyhaunis or wherever opening doors and going "nope, no platform there" and then having to run up through another couple of carriages to get off the train!

But yeah, couldn't happen now for obvious reasons.

Or

• Lenghten platforms as required.
• Get train sets with selective Door opening.
• Use a mixture of train lenghts, and the longer train skip stops as required.

Grandfather rights applied.

But there is no way that the Commission for Railway Regulation would sanction it now.

There is a difference between a door manually locked out in the case of a defect (which requires the driver to lock it from the outside before the train goes into use and labels to be applied to the door), and selective door opening at short stations which is done using the door control panel by the person opening and closing the doors on stock where SDO is fitted.

I very much doubt that the rule book allows for that.

That solution would only be allowable where the door is defective.

The railway works under very strict rules and that sort of “messing around” which is what it would be seen as would not I suspect fall into what would allowed.

The only workable solution is SDO.

There's about 200m to the tunnel I thought (You'd need to cut into the earth a bit though). worst case scenario move the Station to the other side of the viaduct.

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Very strange where those commercial units are to the east of the station, old coal depot I take it?

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i gave you your appology by deleting the post.

nobody is burying their heads in the sand, they just aren't agreeing with you based not on perceptions but actual reality.
as i said myself i am a very regular user for nearly 40 years and use trains at different parts of the day and i see what i see.
usage of the line isn't low but like the rest of the regional lines there is room for improvement.
the vast majority of the network is mostly under-utilised in that it could support more services, that will come in time with campaigning and stock availability.

if you really do want to see frequency increases on the line and more usage ETC, then you should change your support from supporting the sub par plan this thread is discussing, to supporting the opposition to this proposal.

because the opposition to this proposal will deliver much more in the long run, even if we have to wait a bit longer.

the bone shaker 29 was only ever on that service as it runs to dundalk.

apparently that service is to be split at connolly, so if there is a will and a want, it can be swapped with the ICR on the gorey.

yes it will, frequencies would be increased direct to dublin a little bit later once rolling stock would be freed up.
i understand it very well, essentially do nothing or do something to make it look like something is being done when it isn't being done in reality, a swapping of deck chairs.

but in reality regardless of what some studdy suggests, there is a better option on the table that is deliverable and can deliver way more then a ridiculous shuttle service that could not be operated at an hourly frequency in reality, and that is a little less frequent but direct service that could be operated at a 2 hourly frequency which is more realistic.
the shuttle is essentially a do nothing service while pretending to do something, a varient of the failed and discredited no growth model imposed on a couple of franchises in the uk, the previous northern rail franchise and the former wales and borders franchise as examples.
a slightly less frequent direct service on the other hand is very much doing something and really improving the service.
there will always be space to fit the direct service in because greystones is a very very long way off requiring anything more then an half hour to 20 minute frequency.
if we get to the stage where there is no room for direct services from wexford, then we are at the stage where there is no option but to build more infrastructure as removing rosslare services would free up very little in reality even at an increased frequency as there will always need to be room for maintenence vehicles, and the large amount of ECS movements that would be needed to sustain the shuttle anyway as due to diagramming and maintenence/servicing etc the same 2 trains won't be on the line for the whole day anyway, not even near it because none of those will be changing to suit this ridiculous plan.
increasing the frequency of the line with a shuttle would not revolutionise this line, would not bring any real capacity improvements and would not lead to any real growth but more likely contraction as the benefits of actually taking the train would be lost and it would make the service pointless.
there would be a small few who might use it certainly, but in reality it would end up with actual low usage and actually would be under thread for genuine reasons rather then the current ideological/cultural ones.
irish rail won't be able to wash their hands of the line, those days are gone and people are becoming more and more aware of irish rail's nonsense thanks to campaign groups.
climate change also helps even though it brings it's own challenges for certain parts of the line and wexford is getting no more motor way apart from perhapse the bit into rosslare port so given that network is full to beyond capacity the rail line will remain.

For correctness it is a 29000 set - it is used simply because the 4 car ICR would not be able to cope with the loading on that service (the 05:35 ex-Rosslare) in the morning. It has greater capacity as it has more standing room.