{"id":837,"date":"2022-10-08T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2022-10-08T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:22:53","slug":"not-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/not-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Not possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People wonder why I don&#8217;t like Irish Rail. Things like this are the reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should be getting the 13:32 ex Kilcock to Maynooth to transfer to the 13:45 ex Maynooth to Confey, to undertake volunteer litter picking on the Royal Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as is not uncommon for Irish Rail, the first train (from Sligo) is late and there is no guarantee of a connection at Maynooth. The second issue relates to the single track west of Maynooth. The real time departures section of the Irish Rail website is currently reporting an impossibility:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1003\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite-1024x1003.jpg\" alt=\"Irish Rail real time information\" class=\"wp-image-838\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite-1024x1003.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite-300x294.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite-768x752.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite-1536x1504.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite-1200x1175.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IrishRailWebsite.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Irish Rail real time information<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first section is showing an arrival at Kilcock of a train to Sligo at 13:42. However, the second section is showing an arrival of the train I should be on at 13:45. Due to the single track section between Maynooth and Enfield, this is a physical impossibility and the IR website is publishing a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People wonder why I don&#8217;t like Irish Rail. Things like this are the reason. I should be getting the 13:32 ex Kilcock to Maynooth to transfer to the 13:45 ex Maynooth to Confey, to undertake volunteer litter picking on the Royal Canal. However, as is not uncommon for Irish Rail, the first train (from Sligo) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}