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Decommissioned 8200 Dart units. Now a permanent feature at Fairview.

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  • #32
    dowlingm
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    I believe the 82xx/85xx have been coupled before. However, if the problem is bogie related or is otherwise reliability-impairing you're just hobbling a perfectly good 85xx. Given current ridership it's not really a problem most of the time, and if there hadn't been a delay in receiving back the 81xx they might have been parked even earlier. It's just a shame that IE can park up trains in the open like this - it's hardly like sticking planes in the Mojave where there's no moisture or taggers.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
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    The 8200s can work with the 8500s and sometimes did to create a 6-piece set. Not sure if they can work with the 8100s but I'd assume so.
    dowlingm wrote: »
    it's hardly like sticking planes in the Mojave where there's no moisture or taggers.

    Agreed, the whole cab front of 8402 was covered in graffiti a few years back.


  • #34
    loyatemu
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    They may not look too much out of place with the round roofed 8500 Tokyu Car sets.

    plus you'd be creating the most uncomfortable seating combination possible - the hard too-high low-backed seats on the 8200s and the ridiculously close together downward sloping designed for japanese midgets seats on the 8500s. :pac:


  • #35
    dowlingm
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    IE actually planning to do something, or having fun with spotters - you decide.
    GM228 on IRN Board wrote:
    According to sources in the DART 8201/8401 and 8203/8405 are undergoing tests ready for a return to service. They were coupled together recently and tested as a four-piece set within the depot. Apparently only these four units will re-enter service and there are no long term plans to return the other three sets to service, one of which I'm told had an electrical fire earlier in the year and would require substantial work for a return to service?

    My suspisions are it was 8403 which caught fire and that is why the sets were split, why else would IE split the set and leave part of it out of service because 8203 and 8403 were refurbished last year in Inchicore which included a re-wiring, making it the best of the four sets in Fairview, or mayby not?


  • #36
    Oliver1985
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    dowlingm wrote: »
    IE actually planning to do something, or having fun with spotters - you decide.

    That could have been the set(s) i posted a few weeks back in Killester!!!
    I wasnt looking at the numbers :D


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  • #37
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    dowlingm wrote: »
    IE actually planning to do something, or having fun with spotters - you decide.
    Originally Posted by GM228 on IRN Board wrote:
    According to sources in the DART 8201/8401 and 8203/8405 are undergoing tests ready for a return to service. They were coupled together recently and tested as a four-piece set within the depot. Apparently only these four units will re-enter service and there are no long term plans to return the other three sets to service, one of which I'm told had an electrical fire earlier in the year and would require substantial work for a return to service?

    My suspisions are it was 8403 which caught fire and that is why the sets were split, why else would IE split the set and leave part of it out of service because 8203 and 8403 were refurbished last year in Inchicore which included a re-wiring, making it the best of the four sets in Fairview, or mayby not?
    What fool put out the fire. :D


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