Emerald style: The Irish Rail authorities have been busy buying new trains, with mixed results

摘要

Unprecedented investment in rolling stock is changing the face of Irish railways as the fleet goes from being the oldest average age in the EU to the youngest, This has been a two-fold process: the introduction of commuter DMU stock from the early 1990s and now the replacement of intercity carriages with a mixture of loco-hauled carriages and intercity DMU stock. In tandem with this process has been the development of EMU stock in the Dublin area.