The latest of the new DART trains arrived into Dublin Port yesterday from Poland. Its not all bad news regarding public transport in Ireland!

by TheHipsterPotato

36 comments

  1. You mean it’s not all bad news in Dublin exclusively

  2. This is bad news, in the sense that it should have happened ages ago.

  3. Anyone know when the public will actually get to use them? I presume there will be a long period of testing before we get into them?

  4. Its not a question of it all being doom and gloom. Its just across the board way too slow & unambitious for public transport improvements.

    We are way to rich a country to have it be so slow to get around

  7. Meanwhile the line between Athlone to Mullingar was turned into a greenway which is great but a Trainline would have been better

  9. It would be better news if the government didn’t just postpone a handful or public transport infrastructure plans so they could use the budget to build roads. A strategy that has proven time and time again to not work in cities across the world.

    You would have to wonder just how much of an influence the car lobby had on this decision making. Darragh O’Brien is Transport Minister and was previously Housing Minister. In charge of a department which allowed its rules and funding to be written by developers and cuckoo funds.

    The cancellation of transport infrastructure does not bode well for the future of this government.

  10. They’ll look great sitting still waiting to squeeze through Connolly in the morning.

    New trains are great but it’s infrastructure we’re after.

  12. I only commute once or twice a week from the Midlands to Dublin, down by the ports and I’ve no had a delayed train all year, bar maybe 2 mornings where we were like 30 mins late.

    I absolutely love my commute. I’m going for drinks tonight getting the last train home, but ordinarily, I can leave my office at 4pm, grab a Dublin bike down the quays to Heuston, walk onto the 4.25 Limerick train and I’m in Laois at 5.03pm…. an hour and 3 mins from the far side of the city, down by the docklands to Laois.

    Also, I have my golf wets in my bag in case I’ve to cycle in heavy rain and have only used them once all year a few weeks ago.

  13. Start celebrating when they actually get deployed

  14. Can’t believe we’re getting trains delivered by lorry 😳

    /s

  15. is not dart+ postponed 3 years recently. its nice to see new trains coming here but when are they going to be operational

  16. I thought these were broken and couldn’t be used for years.

  17. Watch as they don’t fit the tracks or something now

  19. I look forward to getting FF/FG leaflets boasting about how they delivered them, despite them actively gutting public transport funding.

  20. I saw one of them between Connolly and Clontarf a few weeks ago. They look really nice!

  21. Having commuter rail is great. I imagine it must be nice…

  22. In Donegal we simply read about these magical things in books…glad to know you dubs are getting nice things though.

  26. You’d think they’d bring them in by train, no? 🤪

  31. Wait to see if they are correct for our rail gauge and fit. Don’t count your chickens, an all that.

  32. So does anyone know what’s that yellow box in the truck?

  33. Poland?

    > Its not all bad news regarding public transport in Ireland!

    Is the issue with tains and carriages that we can’t get enough of them. Like we’re constantly buying them. Just takes so long to get them.

  34. I am looking forward to increased space between seats. I’m 190cm and end up with knee pains trying to keep in a position where I’m not basically kneeing the person opposite in the crotch.

  35. I’d be so happy if I didn’t already know they were shit. Unfortunately these have many of the same issues as the other Alstom DARTs, the 8200s, which were withdrawn almost as soon as they arrived. Alstom do not have a good reputation in railway circles, at least not the European plants at Katowice and Derby. For once though, it’s not a TFI problem and is genuinely just manufacturer inadequacy. As far as I know the biggest issue is with them not picking up power from standing. So, if the driver were to close the doors and try to pull away from a station, he could open the throttle and nothing might happen. I’ll be keeping an eye on the delivery of Melbourne’s new Alstom trains as they’re a very similar spec (1600mm track gauge, 1500vDC electric, and both in the Alstom X’trapolis family)- although built at Ballarat and not Katowice- as if they find some solutions they could be applicable here.

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