Dublin journey planner

Pick the day and the time you want to leave. The planner reads the published timetable for that day at the stop where you board, finds the next tram or train that actually calls at the stop you want, and gives the time it leaves and the time it arrives. It allows 5 minutes for a change of line inside one station, and the real walking time for each street transfer — two minutes from the Luas stop at Connolly to the railway station, three from Abbey Street to Marlborough, twelve from Museum to Dublin Heuston.

It knows the things a symmetric map would get wrong. The Luas Green Line runs a one-way pair through the city centre, so a northbound journey is offered from Westmoreland and O’Connell – GPO, not from Trinity and Marlborough. Red Line trams call at Connolly in one direction only, so a trip from Connolly to The Point is planned out to Busáras and back, which is what the operator tells you to do. Short workings that finish early — a tram to Red Cow, a train to Maynooth — are skipped unless taking one and changing is genuinely faster.

Five timetables are distinguished, the same five the operators publish: Monday to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday. If nothing runs at the hour you asked for, the planner says so and shows the first journey the next morning rather than inventing a service. Nothing in Dublin runs through the night.

This is a timetable, not live running. It does not know about delays, engineering works or closures, and it covers rail and tram only — for a journey that is quicker by bus, Transport for Ireland’s own planner is the one to use.