The train from Cork to Dublin costs over three times what it costs to take the Aircoach, and is only about 30 minutes faster. It’s a lovely way to travel, but it’s not worth the price.
Got the train from Serbia to Croatia once before. At one point you could have gotten off and walked faster. And it travelled at that speed for at least a half hour. 4.5 painfully slow hours on a train that realistically could have been done in half the time
I’m even surprised it’s that high. Anyone who’s been on a commuter going northbound in Dublin would know that thing spends more time crawling and stationary, than it does at any half decent average speed. When trains have the same commute time as a bus in such a congested road network… there is something majorly wrong.
The Finnish rail system is a joke for how long the distances between stops are. Ireland at least has more reasonable distances.
For anyone concerned about the slow Balkan trains, I would like to bring you the information that these speeds are intentional and is so you can have the time to view outside the beauties of the Balkans as you sit. Please enjoy the slower pace of life and pace of trains and smoke cigarettes ❤️
Its pretty average for countries comparable in size.
Would be lovely to see a few of the bigger journeys being twice the speed of cars. Dub-Cork, Dub-Limerick-Galway, Dub-Belfast. Presumably the Dub-Belfast line is upping our averages.
I don’t think Ireland needs TGV or Shinkansen style lines but there is no reason why we cannot improve on whats already there so that most if not all of those lines have running speeds of 160kph or more
It would involve removing pinch points that require slow downs like level crossings. Smoothing out of bends. And also double tracking single track lines which also has the super bonus of adding to capacity.
On other lines where it might be less possible to fully double track they could increase the lengths of the passing loops to cut down wait times for a train in the opposite direction to pass which is surely a drag on overall travel times
Slow and steady wins the race
Well that’s a complete lie on the UK one – coz they’re never running in the first place or is that 134 days
Acreages are going to be skewed by the number of stops and distances.
Speed is fine but I’d rather a frequent and reliable service intercity above all else. Like for the cost of electrifying or otherwise upgrading the Cork to Dublin line you could buy a load of rolling stock and drivers.
I call bullshit
That speed in the north is bs
Average speed is a limited metric as it doesn’t take density in consideration. Small but dense countries automatically fare worse as the distance between two stations tends to be shorter. France and Spain look great here, and while their investment in high-speed rail deserves praise, neither of them are very dense countries for their size. Meanwhile, the Netherlands don’t look great, but mostly have stopping trains with little room for higher speeds. Ireland definitely has potential on intercity routes though and could do a lot better here if only the routes had less crossings and were electrified.
My address in England was approximately the same distance from central London as the irish Town I live in now is from Dublin city centre .
In the UK I could be in St pancreas by 25 minutes.
Ireland 45 …which in real time in ireland is anywhere between 1 hour to 1hr 25mins .
So the craic is 90 after all.
Average speed is a really dumb way to judge the quality of a rail service. A very slow (or fast train) can hugely skew the numbers.
Trains journeys in the UK are fast if you’re travelling up the country but not so fast if you’re travelling across.
Sure the trains are a little slow, but our buses are so fast that you can stand at the stop and not even see them go past
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The train from Cork to Dublin costs over three times what it costs to take the Aircoach, and is only about 30 minutes faster. It’s a lovely way to travel, but it’s not worth the price.
Got the train from Serbia to Croatia once before. At one point you could have gotten off and walked faster. And it travelled at that speed for at least a half hour. 4.5 painfully slow hours on a train that realistically could have been done in half the time
I’m even surprised it’s that high. Anyone who’s been on a commuter going northbound in Dublin would know that thing spends more time crawling and stationary, than it does at any half decent average speed. When trains have the same commute time as a bus in such a congested road network… there is something majorly wrong.
The Finnish rail system is a joke for how long the distances between stops are. Ireland at least has more reasonable distances.
For anyone concerned about the slow Balkan trains, I would like to bring you the information that these speeds are intentional and is so you can have the time to view outside the beauties of the Balkans as you sit. Please enjoy the slower pace of life and pace of trains and smoke cigarettes ❤️
Its pretty average for countries comparable in size.
Would be lovely to see a few of the bigger journeys being twice the speed of cars. Dub-Cork, Dub-Limerick-Galway, Dub-Belfast. Presumably the Dub-Belfast line is upping our averages.
I don’t think Ireland needs TGV or Shinkansen style lines but there is no reason why we cannot improve on whats already there so that most if not all of those lines have running speeds of 160kph or more
It would involve removing pinch points that require slow downs like level crossings. Smoothing out of bends. And also double tracking single track lines which also has the super bonus of adding to capacity.
On other lines where it might be less possible to fully double track they could increase the lengths of the passing loops to cut down wait times for a train in the opposite direction to pass which is surely a drag on overall travel times
Slow and steady wins the race
Well that’s a complete lie on the UK one – coz they’re never running in the first place or is that 134 days
Acreages are going to be skewed by the number of stops and distances.
Speed is fine but I’d rather a frequent and reliable service intercity above all else. Like for the cost of electrifying or otherwise upgrading the Cork to Dublin line you could buy a load of rolling stock and drivers.
I call bullshit
That speed in the north is bs
Average speed is a limited metric as it doesn’t take density in consideration. Small but dense countries automatically fare worse as the distance between two stations tends to be shorter. France and Spain look great here, and while their investment in high-speed rail deserves praise, neither of them are very dense countries for their size. Meanwhile, the Netherlands don’t look great, but mostly have stopping trains with little room for higher speeds. Ireland definitely has potential on intercity routes though and could do a lot better here if only the routes had less crossings and were electrified.
My address in England was approximately the same distance from central London as the irish Town I live in now is from Dublin city centre .
In the UK I could be in St pancreas by 25 minutes.
Ireland 45 …which in real time in ireland is anywhere between 1 hour to 1hr 25mins .
So the craic is 90 after all.
Average speed is a really dumb way to judge the quality of a rail service. A very slow (or fast train) can hugely skew the numbers.
Trains journeys in the UK are fast if you’re travelling up the country but not so fast if you’re travelling across.
Sure the trains are a little slow, but our buses are so fast that you can stand at the stop and not even see them go past
Is that really average at speed and not max ?
France and Spain got a bad case of the zoomies.
We have trains?!