Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann
Mr. Jim Meade:
We should be able to do that probably by the back end of next year. Therefore, it will be much sooner. Then we will work towards replacing the Enterprise fleet and having a full hourly service all day long from 2026-27. That is the current plan.
We are also working on getting within a target of a 90-minute journey time. We will bring in the new fleet and we are still working out the details on whether we electrify the line and what propulsion we use. Diesel is becoming a dirty word and rightly so, so we need to be looking at all other options of what kind of voltage we would use.
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