New railcars from Portloaise

[plant43]

Not sure if this is of interest but the 0740 Portlaoise-Heuston service this morning was run by one of the new Intercity railcars. Wonder if that's going to become a permanent fixture.

[CSL]

what would be even nicer would be if it went to Connolly as it could start for Sligo then. [ and take paying passengers who want to go to Connolly ]

[Mark Gleeson]

Originally Posted by plant43

Not sure if this is of interest but the 0740 Portlaoise-Heuston service this morning was run by one of the new Intercity railcars. Wonder if that's going to become a permanent fixture.

Believe it has something to do with the Railcars entering service on the Westport line this week

Portlaoise services will be entirely operated by the new (yet to arrive) 6 coach long distance commuter railcars by 2009

[Thomas Ralph]

Originally Posted by CSL

what would be even nicer would be if it went to Connolly as it could start for Sligo then. [ and take paying passengers who want to go to Connolly ]

There's the old problem that Connolly is near capacity already, and that would involve using the Phoenix Park line, which IÉ say doesn't exist

[Ronald Binge]

Originally Posted by plant43

Not sure if this is of interest but the 0740 Portlaoise-Heuston service this morning was run by one of the new Intercity railcars. Wonder if that's going to become a permanent fixture.

What was interesting was that the train was actually at the Hatch at 0835