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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
The upside of the new timetable is it will be way more punctual than last year, yes by cheating with slower journeys but still.
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I can't see any evidence of it being more punctual yet - 17:25 to Limerick yesterday (Monday) was 5 mins late arriving in Kildare (18:14); 7:16 from Kildare to Dublin today was 14 mins late arriving in Heuston (8:14). They can't even get it right when the trains have plenty of time to crawl up the track.
The 7:16 from Kildare was again overcrowded, with people even having to stand in the 1st class carriage (probably the only country in the world where you have to stand in 1st class!)
I was prepared to give it some time to "bed in" the new timetable but this is ridiculous.
What's going to happen when the trains have to stop in Adamstown? Another 5 mins added to each journey probably.
The whole thing reeks of incompetence and lack of customer focus from IE. Their new marketing catchphrase should be:
Iarnrod Eireann: the no frills railway