You'd feel sorry for NIR. They do provide an excellent service given the fact that they've absolutely no resources. I really think they should be co-operating much more heavily with IE to give them some economies of scale. Particularly, when IE is currently in spending spree mode. NIR could easily jump on board for some of these orders of trains. e.g. perhaps order up some of those Mitsui DMUs to replace the remainder of the NI fleet and have IE do the servicing on their behalf?
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