Yeah, three years .. by which time the Sligo line will be dead.
The job-for-lifers will probably try to milk the railcars like they did with the Greystones extension, the DART 8-coach project and the CDEs .. and by the time they're done doing us over a barrel. But when the time comes to lift the track
they won't have to worry because CIE will probably give them jobs for life driving TRUCKS AND BUSES ... and pay for it all by selling the alignment for one-off houses.
Okay I know this is worst-case scenario stuff here but then again this is CIE
and anything is possible as long as it's bad and you're a pessimist. Am starting to think Thomas S. might be on to something about CIE/Irish Rail ...