Bank Holiday Maintenance Works

[jhb171achill]

I know, yes - the railway is getting busier and needs to be maintained to an uncompromising standard of safety - but have we reached a stage where between DART works and main lines, we may as well assume that henceforth there won't be meaningful train services on any bank holiday weekend?

[GSR 800]

2 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

I know, yes - the railway is getting busier and needs to be maintained to an uncompromising standard of safety - but have we reached a stage where between DART works and main lines, we may as well assume that henceforth there won't be meaningful train services on any bank holiday weekend?

Might as well at this point

[jhb171achill]

18 hours ago, GSR 800 said:

Might as well at this point

Seems that despite most Belfast services actually being on target and normal, the 1st, 7th, 12th, 22nd, 45th and 119th Laws of Sod are fully invoked every time I plan to go to Belfast!

Sadly, I drove today. I don’t do “bus”…..!

[derek]

I drive everywhere. Last time I was on an Irish train was August 1987. And I can't remember my last bus journey. Probably around the same time. I kid you not

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

Seems that despite most Belfast services actually being on target and normal, the 1st, 7th, 12th, 22nd, 45th and 119th Laws of Sod are fully invoked every time I plan to go to Belfast!

Sadly, I drove today. I don’t do “bus”…..!

 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, derek said:

I drive everywhere. Last time I was on an Irish train was August 1987. And I can't remember my last bus journey. Probably around the same time. I kid you not

 

The Carbon Police will have you on their wanted list (and me today too)

[Mayner]

6 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

The Carbon Police will have you on their wanted list (and me today too)

If I was a few years younger I'd probabably change to an electric car (charged overnight at home) to escape the clutches of the oil companies and ever increasing fuel prices.

In this part of the World "in the interests of fairness" the Government have imposed Road User Charges (a tax per Km travelled) on 'light electric vehicles" to close the tax loophole where owners/operators of electric vehicles did not required to contribute to the upkeep of the roads through the payment of excise duty on petrol.

At this stage its planned to replace exices on petrol with Road User Charges (RUC) a system already used for diesel vehicles (cars, trucks. vans), though its hinted that the new charges based on distance travelled could work out more expensive for drivers of fuel effecient cars that the current system (excise on petrol) RUC has a different meaning/connetation in New Zealand to the UK and Ireland .

I last regularly commuted by rail (80 mile round trip daily) while working in London over 30 years ago, an enjoyable time young and full of energy, but can't say I miss the rat race with its overcrowded trains. My rail use in Ireland was mainly leisure travelling around the CIE/IE Network on rambler tickets while on my summer holidays in the 70s & early 90s, journies on the Enterprise & to Galway before leaving Ireland over 20 years ago. Lasting memories significant disruption (bus transfers) due to engineering works on both journies and a night time journey in the dark from Belfast Central to Drogheda (lighting system failure) and bus transfer to Connolly, we hired a car when we last visited Ireland 8 years ago.