Irish Rail 'exploring' putting vending machines on trains

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Irish Rail 'exploring' putting vending machines on trains
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The company has struggled to find someone who wanted to run the trolley service.

Irish Rail is “exploring” the possibility of putting vending machines on trains, the company has confirmed toThe popular trolley service was axed during the pandemic and last year a spokesman said it was ““Iarnrod Éireann is currently exploring the possibility of installing vending machines onboard services, but negotiations are at an early stage,” a spokesperson told“There are also modifications that would need to...

made onboard to facilitate this from a mechanical & electrical perspective and we are also looking into this.”The idea of vending machines was recently suggested to“Even at the minimum, would they put in machines where people could access a bottle of water?” he said.“On that train, you had elderly people, people who had families and there wasn’t a bottle of water on the train.Main image: Split of a train and a vending machine.

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