'Good connections' are all well and good, except when you're dumped on platform 2/3 in Mallow on a cold, wet winter's day, waiting for the train from Cork to arrive! Unlike Limerick Junction, there are no enclosed shelters on this platform and if you want to drag yourself over to the waiting room on platform 1, prepare for a soaking as the 'geniuses' in IE built a new over-bridge a while back but didn't extend the covered portion of platform 2/3 to meet with it!!
Other than that, I don't mind connecting services too much, once there isn't a time-penalty involved and we're not expected to spend upwards of an hour-and-a-half on a tin-can!!
Connecting services are an integral part of rail-travel, but when one pays intercity prices for travel on intercity services, one expects intercity trains!!
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