Irish rail fleet and infrastructure plans

Were they training people how to deal with the scumbags who terrorise passengers on some late evening commuter routes? 😁

hah - there'll be another tender for "walls" and then one for "doors". They'll be the triggers broom of the IR fleet 🙂

It's all the more amusing (no, it isn't) when you consider that in terms of Transport for Ireland branding, purple is the colour of the Luas. Rail is orange there.

AFAIK, the 5 car sets will become 6-car, some of the 3 car will remain and some go to 4 car. Some 4 car may go to 6. Don't have exact numbers.

The number of trainsets will remain the same as there are no extra end (driver) cars.

Some sets that currently operate in multiple will instead operate on their own, which will mean more services can be operated.

A six-car set could replace two x 3-car units for example.

Do you have a pic of this proposed purple livery? What is the purple shape on it. I haven't seen it anywhere online yet.

I thought this heavy rail livery would have been in coloured in Orange. So why did the NTA use purple? The original TFI Branding guidelines document from a few years back had put the purple livery for light rail services like Luas and ML.

Will the people who were shouting and roaring for this actually support it? Or have they even travelled in years?

An update on the catering services, to be starting early April on selected cork-dublin services before being expanded to all cork-dublin services "over the following weeks".

Operator of it is the sister company to the catering provider on the enterprise.

Is this the image you are referring to? Looks more like a new Enterprise tbh. Regarding the interior fabric on these new trains it will be the same as all new buses and coaches that are recently been introduced across the country, It will be the TFI standard moquette, bit like the 90s when evrything on buses and the Dart was green, still is on the Dart I know.

I disagree, We have come a hell of a long way in the last few years, Reduced fares, new Hybrid and all electric buses, tons and tons of new services including a lot of local link ones. Bus connects (driver shortages causing a problem I know) new Liffey Valley interchange, 24 hour bus routes. A hell of a lot more coming all over the country not Just Dublin.

The days of Dublin bus, Bus Eireann and Irish rail providing services to suit their employees and not the general public are well and truly gone. I think the new yellow and green bus and coach livery looks fantastic as does the new bus stops with lots of information on them.

New bus routes like the N4 and N6 and the 24 hour ones such as the 15 are bloody fantastic, We just have to start kicking Irish rails asses in to gear now, we are getting there, slowly but surely.

they now actually need to start enforcing the reservations and things will be grand.

won't hold my breath on that one though.

Any chance of adding coaches to the 5:55am ex Limerick, it is packed by the time it gets to Galway.

the new coaches probably won't effect the 2800s in all honesty.

realistically the ICR fleet being released from the heuston suburban is the only chance of helping the WRC.

i know from personal unfortunate experience that the 2800s are horrid old hulks but unfortunately you are likely stuck with them for a good while yet sadly.

They'll start regigging the existing formation once the new carriages have completed all the required post-delivery tests etc. and are ready for passenger service. I believe the majority of the 41 carriages have been delivered, so they may all be here before they start getting put into service.