Being Irish, having extended family in Rural Ireland and living in Manchester 23 years, I come home on SailRail via Holyhead quite frequently - Dublin is incredibly expensive and the experience of coming into Dublin can be cringe at times, but Irish railways and the LUAS trams, as well as the DART are a joy to behold and are most impressive compared to the U.K. railways
Yep, very expensive city which is a shame as it’s so close to me and I’d love to visit more. Hoping to do more Irish Rail and Translink videos in the future!!
ive been on the class 22000 ones from Heuston to Galway and back and the local service into Heuston from Sallins and Naas - they are not bad trains - they have a similar engine noise to our class 170 turbo stars in the UK - scotrail, Northern, EMR, Southern and Chiltern Railways having the class 170s in their fleet.
Interestingly enough you came through Dun Laoghaire on the train which was the original Ferry Port for services to Holyhead. Passenger services were ended there in 2014, such a shame it was a much better place to arrive into instead of the awful Dublin Port.
Totally agree with this - and living in Manchester myself, I’d sooner sail from Liverpool into Dun Laoire on a foot passenger only ferry on a SailRail basis - someone in power has no imagination and is afraid to introduce new innovation, which I suspect will only happen when the Irish government implements the EU climate change directive and bans all short haul flights between Ireland and the U.K. - there is no LUAS to the Irish Ferries and Stena Terminals at Dublin Port which is really silly
I don’t blame you. And that was your wild ferry ride which I’m in the middle of watching. I’d get the 06.50 train from Belfast to Dublin and then the 09.33 train for Rosslare and get off at Arklow. That would give me three hours there. I used to go down for a feis each July but that ended back in 2013. I try to get one trip down a year but it’s been a while. Iarnrod Éireann have messed my chances of doing the run on a Saturday by reducing the number of trains to a meagrely three compared to six on weekdays.
Iarnrod Éireann has no plans to improve the service. It’s not even mentioned in the all Ireland strategic review. The review is in the latest journal of the Irish Railway Records Society.
