Indeed the whole shed burnt down in the late 1980's, reason who knows, wrote off the Mk3 assembly jigs and 1 Mk2a coach (which IE got for free)
There was a burnt out Mk3, it was stripped down and parts fitted to a UK purchased Mk3intl (again got on the super cheap), reason who knows
DART 8331 had a fire lit by vandals at its inner end which wrecked the interior, but it was fixed in Derby at considerable expense
Then there was the 4.2 million pounds declared loss when 4 DART coaches melted in the Fairview Fire, again no one knows why
Yes it is a problem but the resulting cost is tiny compared to the massive amount of cash coming in currently from the NDP/T21
Every incident could have been prevented or reduced by security on site
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