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Unread 16-05-2015, 20:41   #18
berneyarms
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I believe that the refurbishment programme is running behind schedule.

To qualify for the EU grant, the project has to be completed by a certain date. What that date is I am not sure, but it's later this year.

In order to meet that date, the programme has to be accelerated and as a result more coaches than originally planned will have to be removed from service at the one time.

There is no way that IE 22k sets are going to be left overnight in Belfast.

NIR crews are not trained up on them, and it simply isn't practical to train them in the timeframe involved, so they have to return with their crew to Dublin, and also there are no spare sets.
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