THERE WILL BE minute \u2013 literally \u2013 changes to Dublin train timetables for autumn as Irish Rail seeks to counteract leaf fall challenges on its tracks.<\/p>\n
Morning and evening peak services on the Dart and Dublin commuter routes will see the changes. Journey times for affected services will be extended by between 1\u20133 minutes in all but one instance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second consecutive year Irish Rail has opted to introduce an autumn timetable for the greater Dublin area. It is aimed at improving punctuality.<\/p>\n
The changes will kick in on Monday 21 September and run until 12 December.<\/p>\n
Customers are particularly asked to note earlier departure times on morning services.<\/p>\n
Explaining the move, Irish Rail said: \u201cAutumn leaf fall causes low rail adhesion, with leaves \u2013 especially in damp and wet autumnal conditions \u2013 creating a greasy layer on the rail that is the equivalent of black ice on roads.\u201d<\/p>\n
To ensure safety, train drivers must drive more cautiously and accelerate and decelerate more slowly at times when rails are affected, it continued.<\/p>\n
Morning services on Dart and Dublin commuter services will be slightly earlier to aim to arrive at scheduled times.<\/p>\n
Evening services will depart as scheduled but will have a slightly later arrival time.<\/p>\n
While the vast majority of services will experience only 1\u20133 minutes of extra travel time, the weekday 6.10am service from Newbridge to Grand Canal Dock will leave six minutes earlier, at 6.04am.<\/p>\n
There are no changes to intercity services and other routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Irish Rail said alongside its new timetable, it has made efforts to reduce low rail adhesion through vegetation management, specialised water-jetting, and targeted treatments, among other measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE WILL BE minute \u2013 literally \u2013 changes to Dublin train timetables for autumn as Irish Rail seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[265213,4478,615,61,60,16455,265214,43,16456,265215],"class_list":["post-624413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-commuter-rail","tag-dart","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rail","tag-leaf-early","tag-news","tag-public-transport","tag-train-timetable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}