19:05 Connolly - Sligo

[Mark Hennessy]

So new timetable, new issues that never existed before.

The 19:05 ex Connolly is now scheduled to reach Maynooth at 19:35, whereas last Friday the same train was scheduled to arrive at Maynooth at 19:28.

So far, less improvement.

Now one of the new services ex Sligo, possibly 17:00 is due to arrive Maynooth at 19:34taking up one of the platforms.

The other platform is also taken up with the train that is the 19:50 Maynooth Pearse.

This evening, we arrived outside Maynooth at 19:27 as per the experience from the last number of months on this service.

We waited 11 minutes before an announcement was made about the delay and eventually crawled into the station at 19:47 12 minutes late (19 mins late according to last Fridays timetable) due to the late arrival of the train ex Sligo.

I forsee this being the norm from now on alas and as its my usual commute home, i'll gladly help Irish Rail compile the punctuality stats for my portion of the journey.