The announcement that the train service on the Dublin and Kingstown line is to be resumed on the old plan of half-hour trains each way has given much satisfaction to all persons in the habit of using the line.
The system by which exactly at every hour and half-hour trains left Westland row and Kingstown respectively had come to be regarded as permanently fixed, and as requiring no further thinking about.
Since the alteration, some little time back, loud and bitter have been the complaints of those who, failing to remember the odd minutes at which the directors regulated their trains to start, found themselves sometimes with long intervals to wait on the platforms, and which often resulted in the adjournment of the would-be passengers to the electric tram.
Several generations of Dublin citizens have grown up under the old system since the establishment of the line in 1834, and they naturally resented any alteration. The reversion to the regular service at easily remembered hours ought to have a beneficial effect on the traffic during the summer months, and increase the number of yearly subscribers.
The Irish Times, April 26th, 1901.