A decision by Irish Rail to cut some train services between the M3 Parkway in Meath and Clonsilla was sharply criticised at a meeting of Meath County Council on Tuesday.
Fine Gael Cllr Maria Murphy tabled an emergency motion at the council calling on the rail company to restore the M3 Parkway to Clonsilla service which she said was currently not operating on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, she claimed there were large gaps in the off-peak services from Mondays to Fridays.
The company had implemented a revised train timetable for the period of the lockdown but brought in further changes from last weekend which Cllr Murphy said were having a serious effect on train services leaving Meath.
She told councillors that trains were running at only peak times so there was no train leaving M3 Parkway between 10.30am and 16.35. The last training leaving M3 Parkway towards Clonsilla is 19.40 and the last train arriving in the M3 Parkway from Clonsilla is 20.04, she said.
She said she felt strongly that this was a serious downgrading of the services and would impact on the county council's aim to extend the train service to Navan.
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