[24-27/07/2009] Special Trains in connection with the U2 Concert at Croke Park

[ThomasJ]

Originally Posted by Victor

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=411

have seen this allright and came to the conclusion to this is an incomplete news item awaiting update

monday night services are not listed.

there was a complete list for sunday night where there is no concert on this has been updated and the sunday night list is gone now apart from one cork to dublin service. I reckon these were for the monday night.

The maynooth line services seem to be a bit earlier than normal. I reckon and hope this is because drumcondra will be open. If it is it will be very handy for maynooth line passengers.

[on the move]

Good to see that Irish trains can run overnight after all.

I hope they will just as accommodating to Dublin passengers looking to make their way home from Limerick after the football internationals in the coming months.

[Thomas Ralph]

Waterford passengers would have a decent claim to feeling hard done by, with no late train back there.

I'm sure we've already suggested the possibility of sending out a 2x3 22000 train and splitting it at Athlone, sending half to Galway and half to Westport. That should be a priority.

[ThomasJ]

The online irish rail timetable is telling us that on those dates of the u2 concerts on top of those extra maynooth line services the 23:10hrs pearse maynooth has been deferred as follows :

departs pearse 23:29hrs
departs tara street 23:31hrs
departs connolly 23:36hrs
departs drumcondra 23:45hrs
arrives maynooth 00:17hrs

[ThomasJ]

Online timetable telling us that on these dates of the u2 concerts the 23:20hrs connolly drogheda will be deferred to 23:55hrs with the dundalk connection also deferred to meet this train.

[on the move]

Originally Posted by on the move

Good to see that Irish trains can run overnight after all.

I hope they will just as accommodating to Dublin passengers looking to make their way home from Limerick after the football internationals in the coming months.

A service will run to Dublin at 11pm next week. 1 service.

Nothing south of Limerick. Looks like you can't book separate trains either. You have to book a return service out of Heuston in order to use it. There is also no indication of the number of stops on the service returning from Limerick.

€44 for the return trip.

[Mark Gleeson]

The 21:00 hours from Dublin to Cork waits at Limerick junction on the 12th to make a connection from Limerick to Cork

[Colm Moore]

Originally Posted by ThomasJ

apart from one cork to dublin service.

Thats a "crawl out of the hotel / bar / chipper / bush" early morning train.