It reeks of poor management plain and simple
We know Irish Rail played dirty with Siemens one of the first coaches sent out hadn't been in service for over a year and had many parts missing
To put conext on this the contract for construction was let Jan 1981, the first unit arrived 14th Feb 1983, 25 months and that included design, we are at 17 months currently. normal this kind of thing takes 5-7 months for the first batch. The date keeps getting revised.
The CDE union problem is well known it could have been sorted out a lot earlier
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