The nameless international company which expressed an interest in Ireland was and remains the only company to operate freight using DMU style equipment (well they borrowed it from Railtrack) to prove it could be done
Cost of entry to the market is too high and all the big customers are contracted to IE, all the spare equipment is life expired and is being scrapped. The scrapping contract was advertised so a third party operator could have bought the kit as they used to do in the UK but they didn't
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