[article] Enough Empty Trains to get to the Moon

[Thomas Ralph]

Would be good if they'd checked their facts. For example it says there is no service from the city to Greystones before 0825, but a Rosslare service leaves Connolly at 0726 and calls there.

[Mark Gleeson]

Its not phrased well, first train to arrive Greystones does so at 8:24. First DART service arrives 9:19 (but it only runs from Bray). The first real service arrives at 10:23am! There are 6 empty Bray Greystones DART services ahead of the 8:24.

Anytime I've travelled to Greystones a significant number of passengers joined at Bray

[Thomas Ralph]

Well there's a railcar service gets to Bray in time to meet that first DART. But I suppose they have a good point overall.

[Mark Hennessy]

This was front page of the Metro today also.

[Donal Quinn]

great work guys, well done

[KennyG]

Originally Posted by tralph

Would be good if they'd checked their facts. For example it says there is no service from the city to Greystones before 0825, but a Rosslare service leaves Connolly at 0726 and calls there.

Hi, I'm the author of the Tribune piece. As Mark said, I was refering to the arrival time into Greystones rather than the departure time from the city. Any confusion is due to my phrasing rather than lack of research. It took me three weeks to carry out all the work involved.

Regards,
Ken Griffin

[Thomas Ralph]

Originally Posted by KennyG

Hi, I'm the author of the Tribune piece. As Mark said, I was refering to the arrival time into Greystones rather than the departure time from the city. Any confusion is due to my phrasing rather than lack of research. It took me three weeks to carry out all the work involved.

Regards,
Ken Griffin

Thanks for the clarification and apologies for assuming the negative.

[Laois Commuter]

Originally Posted by tralph

Thanks for the clarification and apologies for assuming the negative.

However, if a journalist can't phrase things clearly and concisely (when writing is his job) how can he criticise others??

LC

[KennyG]

Originally Posted by Laois Commuter

However, if a journalist can't phrase things clearly and concisely (when writing is his job) how can he criticise others??

Just two quick points: (a) I wasn't criticising IE's mastery of the English language so there is no hypocracy involved and (b) the sentence makes perfect sense but I hadn't realised that it could be read in a different way.

Unfortunately, with the sheer amount of writing we have to do, the occasional phrase which is open to different interpretations sometimes creeps in.

Regards,
Ken

[Mark Gleeson]

I read the text in the article as meaning arrival in Greystones

[Donal Quinn]

Dick fearn had a letter in this mornings Metro in response. Movements are vital to allow for early starts...

[Mark Gleeson]

Curiously enough the key complaints is not the early starts

Its the 18:50 Howth Bray, 22:00 Heuston Portlaois and so on

Irish Rail seem to want to both ways, when they got caught spending €70,000 per annum on taxis to Longford, they relocated the drivers to Longford problem solved

Curiously the solution isn't workable elsewhere. Until IE place staff in Gorey a late evening service isn't a runner

[Mark Hennessy]

Originally Posted by Donalq

Dick fearn had a letter in this mornings Metro in response. Movements are vital to allow for early starts...

And lots of angry letters back at him this morning....