What a patronising post. Send them our old rubbish and they’d better be grateful?? I would hope our attitude towards Ireland had progressed somewhat beyond that.
If the 185 proposal doesn’t work out, I’m sure Irish Rail could come up with a better solution than yours all on their own.
That isn’t what I said though is it?
It is daft that we are sending newish units to Ireland, when we will still have pacers, dogboxes and other clapped out sprinters still running on the network. EMT are a prime example of this. Replace as much of the 14x and 15x with the 170/185 if possible. We have a shortage of DMU’s in this country yet the ROSCO’s were planning to send a load to Ireland.
In a very indirect way, passengers and taxpayers have paid for these units....should I have been grateful when I’m sat on an old pacer or dogbox when because of ridiculous franchise bids perfectly serviceable and more comfortable and modern stock has gone off lease and been sent to Ireland?!