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22000 on the Maynooth commuter service

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  • #52
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Why don't they just gut them and have them as trailer carraiges. At the very least the frame and bodywork must be reasonable.

    Given it's only a few years since the last 8100s were given a heavy overhaul I would imagine (hope) they'd see a lot more than another 8-9 years only also.
    IE doesn't do push-pull anymore except on Dublin-Cork.

    If the 8200s were that bad of "lemons", then they could have twisted Alstom's arm to turn them around into something decent. Or are Alstom only let away with building the good stuff for France and selling the rest of the world junk?


  • #53
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    CIE wrote: »
    IE doesn't do push-pull anymore except on Dublin-Cork.

    If the 8200s were that bad of "lemons", then they could have twisted Alstom's arm to turn them around into something decent. Or are Alstom only let away with building the good stuff for France and selling the rest of the world junk?

    He means trailer cars. For the 8100s the 8300s are the trailers, likewise for the 8200 and 8400s. For the 8500s the 8600s are the trailers and cab units.

    The 81,82 and 85 series are the power units.

    Alstom built the 2700s which were hit and miss depending how they were used and the LUAS trams that are performing very well. The thing with the 8200s is that they were well out of warranty when they stared to act up.


  • #54
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    I think the only way you do anything with 8200s is to treat them as 10 cab cars and drop a bunch of powered trailers in between. Suddenly you have five sets of 4?6?8? cars, the middle ones of which could be made by anyone if they took on rewiring the end bits to their standards. Unlike the 8100s where a massive delay happened figuring out the first few they could take their time examining the job since nobody expects them to be available anyway and there's no cash to build the trailers :D:D:D


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