Irish Rail has discontinued printing timetables. A bad decision.
Most regular rail passengers will know there is an hourly service between Dublin and Cork. But say someone wants to break their journey in Thurles and then stop at Mallow, how are they to know what trains stop at the intermediate stations?
Not all people have internet and certainly not everyone has a smart phone with internet connectivity.
One of the speical features of rail travel is linking smaller places to bigger towns.
Irish Rail made the decision to stop printing timetabes as a cost cutting exercise.
It would be interesting to do a costing of the purchase of their Spanish rolling stock which are hauled by GE locos. The unit was never to have been used as it is. The Spanariads originally designed those coaches to have power units at each end. It never happened.
And does anyone remember the silly curtains that disappeared after a month?
Platforms 10 and 11 at Heuston?
Empty trains that run between Limerick and Ballybrophy via Nenagh? A ghost train from Limerick Junction to Roslare Harbour?
Empty car park spaces?
How much did it cost to change the parking system at Heuston?
Will there be a word of protest from the travelling public?
Did the Transport Minister give his approval?
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Garrett FitzGerald must surely be turning in his grave.
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