Irish trains and DART: live direct trains in the next 90 minutes, departures. Free, no key.
Scored across 3 tools
The three tools split cleanly by intent: station lookup, departures from one station, and direct connections between two stations. However, ie_station_departures and ie_train_connections both return 'next trains in the next 90 minutes,' so an agent asking for trains from A to B could plausibly pick either.
All names use a consistent ie_ prefix and snake_case, so the set reads as one family. The internal pattern is slightly mixed (verb-first ie_find_station vs noun-first ie_station_departures / ie_train_connections), but not enough to cause confusion.
Three tools is lean but plausible for a focused real-time rail board: search, departures, and connections cover the common queries. It sits at the low end of the 3-15 range, leaving little room for adjacent needs like alerts or fares.
Core live workflows are covered, but notable gaps exist: no service alerts/disruptions, no multi-day or later-today scheduling, and no journeys involving transfers, which is a common rail need. The tools themselves state these limits, so agents will hit dead ends on trip planning beyond the next 90 minutes.
Finds Irish Rail stations (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland lines served by Irish Rail) matching a word, with their codes. Use when: a station name is ambiguous or misspelled. Example: {"query":"Dublin"}
Inputs: query (required).
Next train departures from one Irish station within the next 90 minutes: time, train, destination, live delay, last reported position. Includes DART and commuter trains. Use when: someone is at (or going to) a station in Ireland. Example: {"station":"Dublin Connolly"}
Inputs: station (required), minutes, results.
Direct trains leaving in the next 90 minutes between two stations in Ireland (Irish Rail Intercity, Commuter, DART, Enterprise to Belfast): departure and arrival times, live delay, where the train is now. Live data only: no later days, no transfers. Use when: someone wants to take a train in Ireland now or soon (e.g. Dublin to Cork). Example: {"from":"Dublin Heuston","to":"Cork"}
Inputs: to (required), from (required), results.
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