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The Text SMS Service is a service which allows customers to discreetly report incidents of anti-social behaviour on board a DART or at a DART station.  

An electric car may park free of charge at designated charging bays only for the purpose of re-charging the vehicle’s power supply. If electric car is not charging parking fees will apply.

Yes Irish Rail provides RSS Feeds.

Please see the Irish Rail RSS feed links below:

• www.irishrail.ie/rss/service  this link provides an RSS feed for our service section.
• www.irishrail.ie/rss/news  this link provides an RSS feed for our news story section.
• www.irishrail.ie/rss/offers  this link provides an RSS feed for our special offers section.
• www.irishrail.ie/rss/news_service  this link provides an RSS feed for our news and service section (combines news and service together).

Iarnród Éireann is not affiliated with or otherwise involved in the development, marketing or other distribution of any applications to do with Iarnród Éireann.

Please go to our App Developers area

For more information on accessing irishrail.ie with a disability please visit our website accessibility page.

The journey that you have selected may not be bookable for several reasons. Below are some of the reasons why there are no online tickets available to book - 

1. Bookings within 60 minutes of Departure - The booking query is being made less than 60 minutes prior to the train departure. Online tickets cannot be booked less than an hour before train departure.
2. Planned Engineering Works - The booking date/s chosen may be currently blocked off due to planned engineering works. The service/s will display online as 'Train sold out' if blocked from sales. Once the revised train schedule which will include bus transfers has been finalised, these services will be made available to book once again.
3. Wheelchair and Bike Bookings - If there is no wheelchair or bike inventory available on an InterCity service, you will see a message advising that there is no wheelchair or bike availability. Please select another service to continue with your planned booking.
   • DART and Commuter Services - The facility to book wheelchair and bike spaces is not possible on DART and Commuter services. If you see the message that no bikes or wheelchairs are available, please proceed to travel without an online booking
   • Bicycles are not permitted on DART and Commuter services between 07:00 and 10:00 and between the hours of 16:00 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. Customers can travel with bikes all day Saturday and Sunday.
4. Booking outside of 90 day booking window - Services are not bookable online 90 days or more in advance.
5. Technical Issues - There may be a technical issue with our booking system. Please try our alternative Journey Planner if the main Journey Planner is not working as expected.
6. Tickets can only be purchased at the station - At the time of the Journey Planner query, online tickets may not be available to book due to a number of reasons. Online tickets will be made available to book shortly. We would ask customers to be patient and wait for online tickets to become available.

For further information please contact the Digital Channels Department.

Subject to the Railway Order being successfully granted by An Bord Pleanála it is expected that construction stage work will commence in 2022 and will be completed/operational in 2025.

Railway Order application is broadly similar to the planning application process. The project is categorised as Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID) and Iarnród Éireann applies directly to An Bord Pleanála for permission. The Railway Order application process is set out in the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001 as amended by the Strategic Infrastructure Act 2006. Following two phases of public consultation, we will submit the Railway Order application. Any person or body may make a submission or observation in writing to An Bord Pleanála in relation to the application and / or the Environmental Impact Assessment Report. The Railway Order application will include a number of technical documents and project drawings and an Environmental Impact Assessment Report. All of these documents and drawings together with any feedback/submissions received from the public as part of the statutory public consultation process will be reviewed and considered by An Bord Pleanála before a decision on the application is made. We expect that An Bord Pleanála will conduct an Oral Hearing before they make a decision. At an Oral Hearing the authors of relevant reports and experts will give evidence on the submissions received and will be available for questioning. Further information on making a submission / observation in writing to the Board and Oral Hearing procedures are available from the Board’s website

The Maynooth Line Transport Study (CSEA/Systra, July 2019) is the reference document in relation to the traffic impact appraisal of level crossing closures and the traffic mitigation provided by providing additional bridges across the rail/canal corridor. This is provided in Annex 3.1 of the Preliminary Option Selection Report provided on the Public Consultation website. Section 3 of this report (Page 32) provides information on all automatic traffic counts (35 No.) and junction turning counts (48 No.) undertaken. Figure 3.1 and Figure 3.11 shows the locations of each automatic traffic count and junction turning count. This information was used to calibrate and validate the local area model, to provide an accurate representation of traffic movements within the study area. Section 4.2 of this report (Page 56) details the overall methodology followed in the road based assessment.

Please download our App from the Google Play or the App Store. If you have any questions about the App please contact Digital@irishrail.ie