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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Average number of passengers who travel per DART service is of the order of 400. 65,000 per day, 154 services per day. Seating capacity per 6 coach set 384.
Nenagh carries in a week little more than what a single average DART service carries.
Those are the hard facts, Nenagh is in serious trouble simply because the population density isn't there and the arrival of the M7 has made rail in any format uncompetitive, the location of Limerick station doesn't help
Athenry Galway is the opposite, chronic traffic congestion and roundabout hell, but a centrally located station and very quick rail journey
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About 16 million passenger journeys were undertaken on the DART system in 2011 with approximately 53,600 scheduled trips. Works out at about 300 passenger journeys per trip. Given that most DART workings are in effect two services (Greystones/Bray to City Centre and City Centre to Howth/Malahide or v.v) the average loading over the busiest sector is not likely to be much more than about 150 especially given that the average DART journey length is about 9km.
There are generally plenty of seats and loads of spare capacity on off peak DART services with ample opportunity for reduced off peak formations especially after 1930.