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Originally Posted by vegas82
you talk about a handful of people getting off at killester etc..how many get off at Clongriffin? i'm not saying you aren't hard done by but you are unlucky that (1) you are getting on at a non-city centre station so the main lines dont tend to stop and (2) you are getting off at non core station so the main lines dont tend to stop.
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At least 100 are getting off that train at Clongriffin, and that may be a touch on the conservative side. Pretty much all the DART's into Clongriffin are alighting about 80-90 in the second half of evening peak, the commuters that do stop a bit less.
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While you are most definitely underserved for what you need are the majority of malahide people - maybe the people you see getting off at Howth Junction wouldnt have made the earlier malahide train anyway - we have no way of knowing....
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The Train I am talking about is 7 minutes before the Malahide, people who I used to see get the 17:58 who presumably decided they were far better off getting the Howth in the knowledge that they may not be able to board the Malahide and have a better chance at boarding at Howth Junction.
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And while i take your point about there being plenty of howth trains but often its the mainlines get priority and i could have been stuck waiting ages for a howth train. for example in the morning the 7.20(ish) from bayside always gets held waiting for the mainline to come through howth junction when its late - even if it means waiting 10+ minutes.
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I agree, but delays are not unique to the Howth branch, my other half is getting the 16:54 DART from Connolly regularly and that is almost always 5-10 minutes late, getting held up by the Enterprise leaving Connolly late by a few minutes and the commuter that is a also ahead of it that is also late. The last few days that DART seems to be only around 5 minutes late, but it's common for it to be at least 10 minutes late.