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Absolutely
Is this a possible order for Alstom Derby?Some info on the new fleet and proposed hourly service has been teased.
£141m boost for cross-border trains between Belfast and Dublin
Cross-border rail services between Belfast and Dublin are set to benefit from a £141.9m investment from the Peace Plus Programme.
Given that it's "End of the decade" for the new services and there is a lot of line to electrify and upgrade I think it will be a few years before these trains are being manufactured. So I don't think they would stop Derby closure/mothballing.
They are suggesting a trimode (electric, battery & diesel initially), which suggests that they're not expecting to have finished building electrification in time
They badly need four tracking between Connolly and Malahide to separate DART stopping services from InterCity trains.BBC News - Enterprise: Belfast-Dublin rail to receive multi-million investment
Enterprise: Belfast-Dublin rail to receive multi-million investment
Cross-border rail services between Belfast and Dublin are set to benefit from a £141.9m investment.www.bbc.co.uk
The thing is, the article mentions journey times will be reduced to 1hr 55 minutes.
Er, which it was in the 80s (admittedly when non stop services operated.
2029 seems too far out.
Is it actually quad-mode? As in under electric mode it will be 25KV AC *and* 1.5kv DC?
The BBC article doesn't suggest that diesel will be used, though admittedly they may have got it wrong.
5 Years to finish wiring Malahide to Belfast would be impressive progress indeed!
That depends if you consider each voltage capability a separate 'mode' or whether it's a sub-capability of being 'electric'.
Tbf the BBC just says 'Designed to run on electric and battery power for part of the route, there will be the option to convert them to fully electric in future.' Which strongly suggests but does not explicitly mean a third mode (Electric AND battery operating over only PART of the route). This could indeed be something other than diesel - e.g. Hydrogen - but the use of 'net zero' not 'zero emissions' from the other quotes in the article strongly hints it'll be diesel.
I think so, yes
Tri-mode is often used misleadingly unfortunately, for example it was commonly applied to the 769s which were definitely dual-voltage electro-diesels.
I hope your info is wrong, because that would mean that it wouldn't be able to use 25kV AC ohle until the whole route is electrified to allow removal of batteries and diesel.
Sounds like your sources are significantly more reliable than mine! Thank you for sharing updates
Thank you for sharingYep, 1.5kV DC initially. Then dual voltage after they pull out the diesel engines. 2045 seems to be the internal timeline for switching the InterCity services to fully OHLE.
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Does that mean they want the supplier to also do maintenance, or just provide information and spare parts so that NIR/IE can do the maintenance themselves?
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It's one block further west of the city centre than the current main city station at Great Victoria Street, which itself is right on the very edge of the city centre.A related project is the replacement of Belfast's Great Victoria Street station with a new 8 platform station, to be named Grand Central Station. This will become the new terminus of the Enterprise service instead of Lanyon Place. Although named "Central" it does not appear to be much nearer the city centre than Lanyon Place was (ironically named "Belfast Central" at one time), but at least it is close to hotels and co-located with the coach station.
First footage of the colossal replacement for Great Victoria Street Station in Belfast - renamed Grand Central Station
Here for the first time the News Letter can bring you footage of the still-under-construction Grand Central Station in Belfast.
But possibly would save 5 minutes on the journey to Lanyon place?
It looks like it'll be 0.4 miles walking distance from the new Grand Central station entrance to the City Hall and Donegall Square, against 0.7 miles walking from Lanyon Place station. So not enormous, but slightly closer. For Victoria Square or St George's Market, Lanyon Place station would continue to be slightly closer on foot.A related project is the replacement of Belfast's Great Victoria Street station with a new 8 platform station, to be named Grand Central Station. This will become the new terminus of the Enterprise service instead of Lanyon Place. Although named "Central" it does not appear to be much nearer the city centre than Lanyon Place was (ironically named "Belfast Central" at one time), but at least it is close to hotels and co-located with the coach station.
First footage of the colossal replacement for Great Victoria Street Station in Belfast - renamed Grand Central Station
Here for the first time the News Letter can bring you footage of the still-under-construction Grand Central Station in Belfast.
This isn't that uncommon LNER has OHLE battery and diesel trimodes on order, TfW already has some, and there have been musings (though little actual progress) on maybe converting (some of the) 80x and 755 bimodes into trimodes by adding batteries.
Information and spares. There is zero chance the unions in IE would allow a private company to undertake full maintenance on any train in the ROI.
Yes a Technical Support & Spares Supply Agreement (TSSSA) is a relatively common part of new train contracts for England, it allows the train to be maintained in-house while transferring the knowledge of the design to the operator's staff, it usually expires after 15-20 years by which point spares may be available on the third-party market and internally the operator has everything documented. Usually this is viewed as an alternative to a Train Supply Agreement which is like paying out a fully-burdened annual warranty on the train for the manufacturer to keep it in near "as new" condition for however many years it runs.
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I also don't like the new name, and would have preferred if it kept Europa or Great Victoria Street, though as it wouldn't be on Great Victoria street anymore and slightly further from the Europa Hotel maybe that wouldn't make sense and you would need a new name to avoid confusion.
