Iarnród Éireann

Iarnród Éireann ( IE ), the railroads Irish, is the principal owner of railway services travellers in Ireland.

Established at midnight the 1987, it is a subsidiary company of the company Córas Iompair Éireann. It exploits all the railway services, interurban, urban and suburban in the Irish Republic as well as the international relation Enterprise between Dublin and Belfast jointly with the railroads of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Railways. In addition to Iarnród Éireann and Northern Ireland Railways, Bord Na Móna exploits an industrial railway network to broad way of 3 feet, the wide-area network of Ireland, which does not transport however of travellers.

At the time of its creation, in 1987, Iarnród Éireann were presented in the form of a Irish Rail , and choose the logo IR with four rails. But these initial was often deformed in WILL GO , initials of the Irish Republican Army. In 1994, the company took the version Irish E of its name and initial corresponding the IE, which remain the commercial mark still today. The Irish word iarnród means “ literally; way of fer ”.

The services of Iarnrod Eireann are exploited under two marks principales : InterCity for the relations broad outlines (including the Enterprise exploited jointly with the Northern Ireland Railways), and DART for the services of suburbs of large the Dublin and of Leinster. Separate schedules are published annually for each sector.

Dublin is a great node of correspondences of the railway system irlandais ; the three Gare S principal for the broad outlines are the stations of Connolly Station, Heuston Station and Pearse Station; the relations broad outlines Intercity radiate towards Cork, Limerick, Tralee, Galway, Waterford, Rosslare Europort, Sligo, Westport and Ballina.

The services of suburbs radiate also mainly at the beginning of Dublin, towards north (Dundalk), the west (Maynooth/Longford), south-west (Kildare) and south-east (Arklow). There exist also services of suburbs between Ennis - Limerick, Tralee - Cork like on Cóbh - Cork. The North-South route is also served by the Dublin Area Rapid Transit, depend on the State, the only railway service electrified put aside the Luas (tram).

The quality of the services varies from one line to another. The Enterprise is well considered, in spite of certain problems of Ponctualité. Also recurring problems of loss of power of the Locomotive S, and time ago with other of overheatings, even of the fires of engines. Interruptions of service result from it regularly. The Cork line - Dublin, which has good reputation, was the first line Great Southern and Western Railway , one of the most important owners of the time having preceded creation by Córas Iompair Éireann. The deadlines and rolling stock are of good behavior on this line.

External bonds

Official site (in English)
Official site (in Irish)

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