enterprise ex Dublin December 27

[EnterpriseUser]

The 1000 Enterprise left Dublin over twenty minutes late due to the engine arriving late.
No heat in the B carriage either. Still the staff are friendly and hot breakfast available: probably the only
service in Ireland or the UK with a full catering service. Generator vans from the Mark 3
sets are coming next year. Connolly station these days is positively cosmopolitan with a restaurant/bar, two coffee
shops and a news vendor. The station is clean and very accessible. Even the toilets
are much improved.

[Thomas Ralph]

Originally Posted by EnterpriseUser

probably the only
service in Ireland or the UK with a full catering service

Random Cork-Heuston trains do have proper meal services.

[Mark Gleeson]

But it was 30 minutes late into Belfast, punctuality and reliability effect 100% of passengers, few will have breakfast.

Not to mention failure to implement EU regulations, yes the Enterprise is truly great

[EnterpriseUser]

Mark: agreed on punctuality; the engine to pull the train was late arriving! If the service was faster; more frequent and, most importantly, reliable then passenger usage would soar. In current weather conditions the bus has been slow. Breakfast is a bonus and definitely not on offer on any other IE services at the weekend!

[Mark Gleeson]

Breakfast is/was offered on Saturday on all services carrying full catering facilities since Rail Gourmet took over. Its probably been withdrawn at this stage due to non existent take up

Unless you go first class its rather hard to eat on Enterprise, the dining car is somewhat lacking in seats and tables, unlike Dublin Cork where the dining car has first class sized tables.

The Enterprise service is an embarrassment, so slow that the RPSI have been able to match and improve on the 1947 2:15 timing with museum pieces to level with the standard time currently offered

[dowlingm]

I guess the question is - where did the engine that brought in the set go?

[PLUMB LOCO]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Breakfast is/was offered on Saturday on all services carrying full catering facilities since Rail Gourmet took over. Its probably been withdrawn at this stage due to non existent take up

Unless you go first class its rather hard to eat on Enterprise, the dining car is somewhat lacking in seats and tables, unlike Dublin Cork where the dining car has first class sized tables.

The Enterprise service is an embarrassment, so slow that the RPSI have been able to match and improve on the 1947 2:15 timing with museum pieces to level with the standard time currently offered

Trying to work out from your reply whether or not RUI has a position on the whole issue of rail catering or is it considered superflous like Fastrack, station staff, buildings etc?