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The Dublin-Westport/Galway line is a major railway route from Dublin to Galway or Westport, County Mayo.The line is part of the greater intercity rail network formed by branches of the main line between Dublin and Cork.
Map of Ireland's rail transport infrastructure, showing number of tracks, electrification and maximum speed. The Enterprise route (Dublin to Belfast) is well regarded. However, it is only double track and serves both local and intermediate Commuter as well as InterCity traffic. Hence any delay has knock-on effects.
Journey times have reduced from over 60 minutes in the 2016 timetable to 53 minutes in the 2023 timetable. The North Tipperary Community Rail Partnership (NTCRP) has criticised the lack of services provided on the line. Other criticisms have come from communities on the line over the 'skeleton' service provided on the line. [2]
The Dublin–Cork Main Line is the main InterCity railway route in Ireland between Dublin Heuston and Cork Kent. In 2018, 3.46 million passengers travelled on the line, a 10% increase from 2017 figures.
The 05:35 service from Rosslare Europort to Dundalk Clarke, previously the longest train route on the island of Ireland by duration, was discontinued in the timetable change of September 2024. This service took 4 hours and 42 minutes, arriving in Dundalk Clarke at 10:17.
The Dublin to Sligo main line is a railway route operated by Iarnród Éireann in Ireland. It starts in Dublin Connolly station , terminating at Sligo Mac Diarmada railway station in Sligo . The route is a double-track railway as far as Maynooth , being a single-track railway with passing loops between there and Sligo.
The Northern Ireland section of the line was also upgraded to 90 mph running on many sections of the line. [citation needed] Today the journey times vary between 2 hours 5 minutes (with four intermediate stops) and 2 hours 20 minutes (with six intermediate stops), [4] with an average speed of 93 and 84 km/h (58 and 52 mph) respectively.
Construction of the route was begun in 1848 for the Waterford and Limerick Railway and completed in 1854. [6] It is one of the oldest railways in Ireland, and the first to have been authorised by the UK Parliament. [6] The company was renamed the Waterford, Limerick and Western in 1896 and merged with the Great Southern and Western Railway in ...