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DART Fleet, my observations...

  • 14-06-2007 10:00PM
    #1
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭


    Here's my observations on the DART fleet..

    Original German built
    Best of the bunch in my opinion, basic design, no air con but plenty of windows to open and leg room. Fools in CIE had/are having them refitted, no air con going into the refit.


    Spanish built
    Have seats which can only comfortably accommodate vertically challenged people, was the person in CIE who arranged the purchase of them a midget? Air Con is non existant, strange for a train built in Spain, when spending millions on carriages it's something you really should be getting in unless you have a limited intelligence and spend state money like confetti.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_8200_Class


    Japanese built
    Air con is present but drivers seem to lack the inteligence of how to actually operate it. These are nice and comfortable when the air con is on but it rarely is in the morning and so the trains are a like a boilerhouse. Nice enough leg room on them which is stange as Japanese people are normally smaller than Europeans, perhaps the mess with the Spanish trains was corrected on this order or a taller chap was involved in the purchase.


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  • #2
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,966 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    theres actually 2 different models of Japanese DART - the first set have no aircon and only enough legroom for children and midgets (these are recognisable by their curved roofline) - they are by far the least comfortable Dart carriages.

    The second set have Aircon and the seats have a thinner profile so theres more legroom. The legroom on the Spanish Darts is actually fine, but I know some people find the seats a bit high and hard. Theres only 10 spanish carriages anyway.

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  • #3
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,164 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Tipsy, I agree with you the old darts are by far the best and most comfortable. Im not tall and I find that the newer darts are the most uncomfortable and would actually prefer to stand on these darts.

    I hope the guy to said who agreed to the new dart design was fired.


  • #4
    bryanw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭bryanw


    Floppybits wrote:
    I hope the guy to said who agreed to the new dart design was fired.

    A public sector worker??? Never.
    He gets payed with taxpayers money to make mistakes like that!


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