Northern line (Dublin) 2007 timetable issues

[Colm Donoghue]

You can get the 18:40 Connolly Skerries
arr Skerries 19:01
dep Skerries 19:16
arr R+L 19:23
arr Donabate 19:27


The 19:15 from Pearse arrives in Donabate at 19:46 and
R+L at 19:51

The journey planner won't show this connection if you search online

[Mark Gleeson]

Originally Posted by colmd

You can get the 18:40 Connolly Skerries
arr Skerries 19:01
dep Skerries 19:16
arr R+L 19:23
arr Donabate 19:27


The 19:15 from Pearse arrives in Donabate at 19:46 and
R+L at 19:51

The journey planner won't show this connection if you search online

Firstly nice catch

Secondly this is only going to be valid if you have
1) A Dublin suburban annual ticket
2) A short hop ticket (Donabate and Rush and Lusk are inner zone)

Now you could try it on a normal single or return but I'm fairly sure you could be in trouble, now if the journey planner showed it it would be different game

[Mark Gleeson]

For the record the 17:13 left Pearse 17:13:35

There where 5 or 6 people standing in the front coach, coach 2 and 3 where the most heavily loaded with 30-40 ish standing

Advice is to spread out on the platform

[tigger1962]

hi there,
I used find the last carriages on that train were the Dundalk people, The middle carriages were mostly Skerries/balbriggan people.. If you know were to stand on these carriages you'd get a seat in skerries. I found that if you go to the last 3 carriages you could stand as far as dundalk depending on the day. Usually you would get a seat by laytown in most of the other carriages. The earlier train to Balbriggan which now stops everywhere can be ok if you get there earliy enough. Today will be the first time in 8 months that I will be home by 6.15! I am a bit amazed! I used to be home in balbriggan by 6 most days!


ps in the carriage I am sitting in there are at least 14 free seats!!!!

[hhf8]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Advice is to spread out on the platform

Have to agree,In tara northbound,ppl seem to wait in huge groups near the stairs,they never seem to move from there,Always room down the back to get on. Could IE maybe run messages over the intercom,telling ppl to spread out in rush hour? Bit like the behind the yellow line one

[Colm Donoghue]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Firstly nice catch

Secondly this is only going to be valid if you have
1) A Dublin suburban annual ticket
2) A short hop ticket (Donabate and Rush and Lusk are inner zone)

Now you could try it on a normal single or return but I'm fairly sure you could be in trouble, now if the journey planner showed it it would be different game

My ticket's good to Balbriggan. It's strange this journey doesn't show up when the
dep R+L 20:44
arr Drog 21:11
dep Drog 21:40
arr Conn 22:20
shows up for connections back the way.

I imagine there would be a pressing need to have a printout of the website to show the guy on the enterprise but the ticket office in R+L would probably be closed so "how could I know?" should work.

[Aphfaneire]

Ive started getting the 1713 on a regular basis again on my short days, but from connolly and not tara when i was in lectures. And ive now discovered that the back carraiges on this service are really undercrowded. All previous trains i used to get like the 1645 where packed everywhere, this one isnt. Kind of a god send cause now i know i can sit with my back too the door, i dont care if theres no seats. Hopefully there wont be a platform change like today when i get back to getting it from tara.

Stupid p7, its northbound but yet the doors open southbound, talkabout stupid!

[dowlingm]

Has an "express shortcut" ever been proposed for the northern line to cut the "Skerries curve", so Enterprise and express suburban could run along this alignment in the peak direction and overtake DART/stopping 29000s? Obviously it wouldn't be a silver bullet (3-4 tracking in Dublin, Connolly platforms etc.) but in terms of improving the express service timings it might help?

[Mark Gleeson]

Would only work for Drogheda bound trains, its all green now but just wait.

There was a afternoon train a few years back which pulled in in Skerries and was overtaken, the 10 minute delay to the Drogheda train didn't go down well

[craigybagel]

Two of them actually the 1450 Pearse Gormanston and 1620 Pearse Drogheda. Usually ended up waiting 5-10 minutes just before the Balbriggan Viaduct for the Enterprise to go through. Of course the trains were Cravens, so no locks on the doors, so nothing to stop you jumping off early.....or into the path of the Enterprise......

[hhf8]

remember that train well,ppl regularly would jump off.