Low demand sees Irish Rail axe services

COST cutting and passenger demand have been blamed by Irish Rail for its decision to axe two weekday night services between Cork and Dublin from next week.

Low demand sees Irish Rail axe services

As part of the company’s revised inter-city timetables, the second last services each day from Cork to Dublin (departing 7.30pm) and from Dublin to Cork (departing 8pm) will no longer run when the changes take effect on Sunday. This will reduce the number of services operating each way daily to 14, the first change to the hourly rail service between the cities since new trains were introduced just over two years ago.

The company said the focus of its service review was to improve and maintain services while controlling costs.

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