Irish Rail also seeking to buy 41 inter-city carriages as passenger numbers soar
Tender documents from the NTA for the pre-owned trains specify they must be capable of operation in units of three or four vehicles, with a driver’s cab at each end of each unit.
Irish Rail currently has 29 of these trains operating in sets of four carriages, sourced from Spanish train builder CAF between 2002 and 2005. An industry source said it would be difficult to economically acquire previously used trains, given the Irish railway gauge is 1,600mm which was not found anywhere else other than Australia and Brazil.
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