What Irish trains would be coming from Germany?

Well on the Galway to Dublin they use new trains but on Galway to limerick they use an older one then everywhere else it’s very old ones and a bit of the newer ones

The first generation DART EMUs were manufactured by Linke Hoffmann Busch in Germany.

I definitely think the Mark 4 loco looks the best of them all. Not sure about that livery tho.....maybe a dark green ordark blue would look better

Tho the DD Enterprise set is now about 1/2 way thru its design life, having already had a refurbishment. In the end, electrification on the main Dublin Belfast line, will have to be considered.

Balls in hand I agree with you

Thank you for your kind remarks , so glad you enjoyed it.

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@@1r1shoperatorgaming70 bruh. Whats that suppose to mean

Balls in hand I agree with you

Mark O brien enter Iarnród Éireann into google search. Comes up with a Wikipedia breakdown.

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@@1r1shoperatorgaming70 bruh

well it is the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART)

@Christian Bridger yeah yeah, now fuck off to a comedy club to tell your jokes elsewhere..

@@thereisnobean8537 I bet comments above you are from same person using alternate accounts.

@@arijitpalit2756 they're bots I think. I've seen them on alot of comments on railway videos and stuff like that..

The Irish Rail class 22000 does sound similar to the 158. The 29000 class sounds even more similar.

Sadly the Irish economy linked to the population makes this unaffordable but with new technologies who knows what the future will bring.

@@keithewins992 from where I am (Poland) most of the tracks are electrified. If we take GDP as the measure of wealth and development then Ireland beats Poland by miles. Hardly the economic reasons are to blame?

Balls in hand I agree with you

Unfortunately politicians in Ireland have had a blinkered view of rail travel for many years, investing instead in new roads and motorways. For example, in 1958 they closed what would have been a very profitable line. This was the line from Harcourt Street in Dublin city centre to Bray. It was a double track line that went right through the south Dublin suburbs. Anyone with even a little foresight would have at least kept the route intact but no, roads were the way to go. So there was little chance of electrification while this mindset existed. And also, as already mentioned, the population is small compared to most European countries. Freight services are sparse. In recent years however there has been a large increase in passenger traffic, so I think the government is at last taking notice. A new line to Dublin Airport is planned and also new trains are to be purchased but I fear that this may all be put on hold due to the upcoming economic fallout from the Corona Virus pandemic. Nice video, by the way.

@@kacperpawlowski1149 GDP is not a way to calculate a countries wealth as it includes the wealth of companies and they pay very little tax in Ireland especially the big multinationals, now if they were taxed like they should be then maybe we could do a lot more for our public infrastructure which is very bad. The Irish Government tax the working people hard and house prices and rent is sky high, fuel taxes etc. Not so wealthy people in Ireland when you see how People have to struggle today to put food on the table and pay bills after they pay a mortgage or rent + Child Care, that's even if both Parents can afford to work. I know people who have a pre pay electric meter to stop their electric company sending a big bill, if they have no money for the meter they have no electricity but they have more money for food and rent, there are lots of people with the same system for their Gas heating yet the Government want to keep increasing taxes on energy to combat Climate change while people go cold and sit in the dark. Welcome to Ireland 2021!

Hi Keith. Yes you're right about the population of Ireland. However, if we look at the statistics, Irish rail carried about 45 million people in 2017 while PKP Intercity (Polish Rail) carried about 42 in the same year. While Irish population is about 4.8M and Polish population is about 38M, I think the viability of the service is self explanatory?

And funny enough if it wasn't for the Brits we'd have no railway at all, the Dumb Irish Government ripped out a good tram system in the 1960s the British installed back in what, the early 1900's maybe ? and spent billions putting in a new one 15 years ago. If Public transport is good enough People will use it but it needs to go to the offices and industrial areas, if it was good enough we wouldn't have the sheer gridlock we have on our roads today but of course another issue with public transport is that little investment was made to create jobs outside of Dublin so too many people flood the roads all to head to Dublin in the mornings and out in the evenings. But apart from Population GDP calculates wealth from companies and is a poor way to determine a countries wealth, the Big Multinationals do provide jobs but the Irish People get saddled with the majority of the tax.

​@@o00scorpion00o Irish owned railway companies built the railway system here not the British. The tramways were dismantled in Ireland for the same reasons they were dismantled everywhere else during that period. London was completely absent of trams after 1952 until the turn of the century.

I use an I phone and standard Apple editing. They really are great.

@@keithewins992 Which iPhone?

DS Intel I phone 6

Jessica Tracey it’s a two car diesel unit built by Tokyo car co. And forms the branch train that runs to and from Balina to connect with the mainline trains.

Tokyu 2800 Class. You can tell it apart from a Tokyu 2600 Class by the lack of cab-end corridor connections on the front and rear.

I have just released a new video” A look at Irish railways, May 2022” which was posted on KZfaq on the 18th of June. It was great to come back to Ireland. I hope you enjoy it as much as my previous one.

These units operate the Ballina branch and local services from Limerick and west coast service through to Galway from Limerick.

They are like the second newest trains they are usualy the only ones I ever see

They look like the 2600 without the black cab-end gangways.

It is an Irish rail mainline express on the Dublin Cork main line. The leading vehicle is a Caf built driving van trailer which leads the train in the Dublin direction. A 200 class General Motors locomotive is pushing from the rear

Keith Ewins 201 class not 200

Irish Railway Trains I stand corrected thanks for pointing out my unintentional slip up.

Keith Ewins no bother at all

The front end shown here is a Mk4, the rear is a 201 Locomotive.

These trains are so strange to me. I'm used to English trains.

Thanks Keith. Hopefully with the recent plan to purchase around 600 electric/battery powered units by Irish Rail that might change in the future.

Tokyo car co. Two car sets,new in the 1980sat about the same time as the British 150s. They are based at Limerick and Cork and operate local trains out of Cork and secondary services from Limerick.

@@keithewins992 thanks Keith! It did strike me that the first one looked very similar to the DARTs we got in the mid 1980s, and I think they were from Tokyu Car Co as well. What about the very streamlined-looking one at 7:15?

batlin this is a CAF Spanish built driving trailer and train which is hauled or pushed by a GM built 200 class.

@@keithewins992 awesome! I hope to see it in Dublin sometime.

Keith Ewins they are class 2800s at 6:50 and don’t operate out of Cork they only operate out of limerick and the train at 7:15 is pushed/hauled by a 201 not 200

Gosh!!You do realise Ireland is not in Britain or British?Why should you think its trains would be like theirs??