New Irish Rail Website

[Jamie2k9]

New Irish Rail website expected in September. Currently being developed.

[paddyb180285]

I wonder what date in September the new website will be launched. Also, something will need to be done with the timetable listing convention where Commuter trains are listed as "Railcar" or where Enterprise is listed as "Intercity". Furthermore, I have always thought that the logo for the type of service making a halt at certain stations would look better than the plain text that is currently there. This would certainly make the timetable lists clearer. I can't think of anything else.

[James Howard]

Possibly just listing the timetables in HTML would also be helpful. Trying to find the time of a train using a phone is a mess with the current site as you need to select stations with a combo box. In general the site needs a lot of work to make it work properly with a phone.

On the subject of "Railcar"/"InterCity", it would be good if it was at least accurate. For example, the 0905 Connolly to Sligo is indicated as "InterCity", but has been operated by 29k every morning I've been in Connolly for the last year.

[Mark Gleeson]

The new website was flagged here as far back as March. I've seen the draft and its pretty good

Personalised pdf timetables are supported by the underlying journey planner system (demo of this in members area)

[fiskar]

New to this fora but would like to add a few gripes I have with website information especially Irishrail.ie

I am trying to weigh up possible travel from M3Parkway to Docklands. So armed with my trusty laptop I went on virtual tour which ended up being a merry go round.

I wanted to know more about the ticketing process, specifically what "rolling 7 day" meant, I have an idea but wanted specifics. Could not find it on Irishrail.ie.

I wanted to find out more about the M3 Parkway and docklands station. Pure waste of time. There is not even a photo or decent map. For instance, looking at the map and even the linked maps here one cannot see the entry or exit points for Docklands. What street do you come out on!

I wanted to find out how far in metres was the nearest Luas from the Docklands station, not even remotley possible.

I wanted to find out what the distance in metres or walking time from Docklands to Stephens green, reason, to find out if getting a combined rail-luas ticket was better than the walk and how long the walk is. Again not possible.

I wanted to find out about parking, security etc at these stations. Not a chance.

A suggestion for Irishrail and the new website, model it please on the tfl.co.uk website. it gives you everything, maintenance, walking time and routes.

What I would like to see from the new Irish rail website is

[Mark Gleeson]

The current website is a disgrace, the new website can handle nearly all of that from the demos I've seen.

It will have much greater level of information on stations, including google streetview integration. There is also completely new journey planner which also has the ability to handle addresses and includes mapping

Fare information for all Dublin commuter journeys is also in the system as is a completely revised display of fares

The station page will automatically include all relevant engineering works, delays and changes which effect services there

There is talk of a innovative multimodal journey planner as well, commercial sensitivities preclude any discussion of that right now but it has Dublin Bus and Luas routes on it as well.

In the meanwhile http://www.railusers.ie/passenger_info/fares_matrix.php