The trip from Cork back to Dublin was fairly uneventful. We walked to the station and got the photos we couldn’t easily have gotten in the rain. There was one neat panorama in an office as we walked by. For whatever reasons our seats were properly reserved this our time with our names showing up in little red LED boards by the seats. The first time they just had ticket stubs so this was a bit more impressive. For whatever reason seat reservations seemed to be in play on the northbound but not on the southbound ones. I suspect that the way the directions worked out was just a coincidence though.
The final picture is of the fare gates at Heuston station in Dublin. Those gates work fine for the dart but despite fancy appropriate tickets they don’t seem to work for the cross country rail. That said, this wasn’t a big deal as they seemed well aware of the problems and consistently took steps to allow people to get around the fare gates. I’m guessing the full integration attempt is still in its infancy, seems worth doing in the long run.
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