Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann

Mr. Jim Meade:

Certainly, on the Enterprise, the hourly service is more than an ambition; it is something we will deliver over time. I have been working with Mr. Chris Conway of Translink on looking at how we would bring in an hourly service, at least for the morning and evening peaks, as we wait to develop the full service for 2027. We have some extra fleet coming at the back end of this year - 41 InterCity intermediate railcars. We are looking to try to allocate some of them and Translink will do the same thing so that we can provide another train set at each end. That will allow us to do a morning and evening peak service initially. There is a requirement to get people into Dublin earlier in the morning and then out later in the evening.

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