Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann

1:30 pm

Mr. Jim Meade:

We are running a couple of maintenance programmes. One of them is about passenger information systems and one is a programme of repairs that we have to do, would you believe, on the floors of the 29000s. That programme is well advanced and we are changing some of that now as we put back in the extra capacity, because of the growth we have seen this month. We are also using some of our ICR fleet, which is our intercity commuter fleet. They are not ideally suited to commuters but it is just to get the capacity in there. They are the trains with the corner doors and a single file in and out. They are fine but they are slower for commuters to use. They tend to be smaller with four car sets. Again it is a capacity issue. We only have so many trains.

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