The new Irish Rail timetables caused substantial delays for commuters especially for trains travelling through Dublin Connolly
The new timetables introduced in August Irish Rail has since amended the schedule.The changes were introduced at the end of August to allow for the extra Galway and Waterford intercity services as well as the upcoming hourly service to Belfast which is due to launch in October."On the Connolly side of the house the hourly Belfast service was the major change," he said.
"The revisions that we made then this day last week were to give more achievable times and it has improved on all those routes feeding into Connolly, but it's still not good enough," he said. "But we are maximising the capacity that we have in and around Connolly Station in particular with all those routes feeding it".Mr Kenny said as an hourly service to Belfast begins there will be shorter turnaround times to fix issues.
"Coming into Grand Canal Dock every morning we park up outside for several minutes because it's a delayed train to Newbridge," he said."Grand Canal Dock has become a pinch point we didn't have before. In general the trains are busier due to timetable change.""The week schools went back and then was another timetable revision the week third level went back as well," he said."Doing a timetable change in June is normally the done thing...
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