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    A mock up of the new Irish rail Class 90000 found at the RDS awhile back
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    A mock up of the new Irish rail Class 90000 found at the RDS awhile back

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    1. VanillaCommercial394 on

      An chead staisun eile ,does that translate to “the 1st station other” ? sorry I know it’s off topic but I always wonder when I see it on a train .

    2. Short_Ad_5006 on

      Could have done with buying double decker trains that loads of countries use now 

    4. RE_235 on

      Why are they so insistent on using that dark blue background with white text for their info screens? I hate it so much

    6. Faelchu on

      Imagine spending that money and getting the Irish wrong! I’d be looking for a refund.

    7. South-Cable5345 on

      Please – just do carbon copy on what other countries are doing. Get there project managers, get their construction managers. We can’t seem to accomplish anything on time or within budget in this country so let’s stop pretending

    12. huangcjz on

      Hello! I’m from the U.K. – I hope you don’t feel like I’m intruding on your space, but I like trains, and this came up on my feed! Alstom, the French company manufacturing these trains, have re-branded these from their older X’TRAPOLIS branding to their new Adessia Stream branding, but nothing about the trains themselves has changed. Alstom have produced some not-great trains for Ireland ([IÉ 2700 and 2750 Classes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%89_2700_and_2750_Classes ) and the U.K. in the past (Coradia 1000 diesel trains, Classes 175 and 180, which caught on fire a lot and aren’t very reliable, and Coradia Juniper electric trains, Classes 458, 460, and 334, which took a lot of work to get reliable, and are mostly getting phased out now), but also some pretty good and reliable electric ones – the 1996 and 1995 Stocks on the London Underground – the 1996 Stock uses an older type of propulsion system, which makes it sound cool, like a spaceship taking off: https://youtube.com/shorts/iFCUaBlAgaQ?si=yyIYMUsNB5iSPz9P , plus when it slows down: https://youtube.com/shorts/ihJ87e6F9tk?si=KOsG-F6A-IGfJQcl – and the Class 390 Pendolino high-speed trains on the West Coast Main Line. If you want to hear another cool motor noise, here’s the Siemens EuroSprinter/Taurus from the continent, the “singing locomotive”: https://youtube.com/shorts/8c2Eq0z3gLc?si=pdpuX0kgxl8XLmYi

    15. gavmac5 on

      That’s the nearest it will ever get to Drogheda… going by the cluster fùck that is the children’s hospital.