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:
Yes. We are happy to say that later this month the first of our new train order arrives to go into the commissioning cycle. We call it the Alstom fleet or the DART+ fleet. We have 19 train sets coming and we will something like eight to 12 of them ready to go into service in January 2026. That is a long time, but it is the onerous process we are put under by the European Union Agency for Railways and our regulator, the Commission for Railway Regulation. We just have a very onerous task to go through with a new series of any type. We are not taking any trains out once they start going. We have in total 37 train sets coming over 18 months and the potential to order more, because we have a framework up to 750 vehicles.
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