Yes change in Kildare but you’d be waiting a while on a Sunday for your changeover
Yea, could do a day trip match in KK by train no problem up to last year when they inexplicably upgraded the system.
I don’t think the Limerick train stops in Kildare anymore.
Not often anyway
I’d prefer the train.
It’s on TG4 anyway…
I remember meeting Babs and his wife on the train one day from Thurles and they were getting off in Portlaoise to get a commuter train from there that stopped in Kildare.
I’d say from Limerick the route would be as follows:
Limerick → Limerick Junction, change at Limerick Junction for Portlaoise, change at Portlaoise for Kildare, change at Kildare for Kilkenny.
Sounds like the D’unbelievables sketch.
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Straight into Dublin!
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There used be a tight enough change in Newbridge on a Sunday night at one stage. Missed it once and then had a nice enough walk to the nearest pub. Luckily barman gave me a lift back up to the station after. Phone went dead. You’d be getting worried.
How did we survive without phones at all?
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this is pretty amazing, so good in fact that i might do an information gathering trip to see how it works in practice and bring learning home
Bon voyage
Sydney to Cork
Port of loading
Port of loading
43 days 8h
Every 1-2 weeks
23,674 km
14,710 mi.
2 transfers
1 stop
Estimated emissions
2.26t CO₂e (per TEU)
| Service Lines | Service Type | Departure frequency |
|---|---|---|
 Southern Star → OC1 → CRX |
Transshipment |
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its an essential journey you smuck
The world is burning pal. We all need to do a bit better.
yes, thats why my learnings will be key
Limerick - Waterford with a change to Kilkenny would be the most direct surely, although I presume nowadays you can only get an LK-WD train on alternating weekdays at 11:20am, if even.
I can’t see any options of a train from Limerick Junction to Waterford.
As far as I know the line is reopened after that bridge collapsed years ago, but has never seen any use. As far as I know it’s a single line with little options of trains to pass each other. The internet tells me they can pass in Clonmel only.
I did use it perhaps 8-10 years ago but that must have been after the bridge collapsed.
So I don’t know what the story is, and why it’s not in use?
When I searched earlier I saw a few websites saying there’s a service.
But you can’t buy a ticket on the Irish Rail website. That’s the proof of the pudding.
I could buy you a ticket online for tomorrow morning right now for the princely sum of €4.25 but there is only so far I’m willing to take this.
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Look, this is a lad who can’t book a flight on the Ryanair website.
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He’s expecting a convenient train journey between Ireland’s third largest city and a provincial town 70 miles away
I only searched on Saturday and Sundays, so apologies. No service on weekends.
You’d imagine that would be peak time?