New FSO service Waterford - Dublin

[Traincustomer]

An additional journey, operating on Fridays & Saturdays only, has been introduced at 16.00hrs ex Waterford arriving Heuston 17.50hrs.

Intermediate stations served are Carlow, Athy and Kildare. Timings are shown in the Journey Planner and on the in station poster.

[Jamie2k9]

An additional journey, operating on Fridays & Saturdays only, has been introduced at 16.00hrs ex Waterford arriving Heuston 17.50hrs.

Intermediate stations served are Carlow, Athy and Kildare. Timings are shown in the Journey Planner and on the in station poster.

Spotted this the other day but didn't post because its only in the JP until early October. Its being operated by 3 coaches which operate part of the 13.15 ex Heuston and return empty at 15.35 to operate another evening service.

I asked IE twice since the 2013 why they don't operate it as a passenger service especially as the 16.50 service was cancelled and carried good numbers on Fridays and Saturdays. Needless to say that would be a terrible idea!

Only reason I can see them operating this 16.00 service is because the 14.50 was changed from 6 to 3 coaches to allow the 13.05 go form 3 to 6 in July and there has being some issues on the 14.50 since.

[Traincustomer]

Interesting - thanks for the background as I was intrigued as to how the service came about. There may be scope for other empty stock movements on the network to operate in service (or in service for part of the journey). A can do policy of constant improvement is the way forward.

[dowlingm]

Traincustomer- you may be unfamiliar with the IE stages of timetable grief where:

RUI suggest turning a positioning service into revenue
IE do nowt
RUI go on Matt Cooper or similar to talk about it
The Information Minister or a minion rubbishes the idea
A suspiciously short time later, a service is inserted into the revenue timetable...

[Jamie2k9]

Interesting - thanks for the background as I was intrigued as to how the service came about. There may be scope for other empty stock movements on the network to operate in service (or in service for part of the journey). A can do policy of constant improvement is the way forward.

There isn't really any others at user friendly times and on busy days operating so not much scope. Operationally there is advantages of not having them as passenger services but as this service must be back in Dublin to operate it makes sense.

[Mark Gleeson]

There still are several regular empty stock movements, regardless of the time of day its a free item basically and any revenue is extra