What Irish Rail are up against

[Rashers]

Was there not a newly refurbished mark 3 coach burnt out in Inchicore one night a few years ago - they cost around EUR1m, at least each.....?
That's expensive vandalism.....

[Mark Gleeson]

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

[KSW]

Originally Posted by Rashers

Was there not a newly refurbished mark 3 coach burnt out in Inchicore one night a few years ago - they cost around EUR1m, at least each.....?
That's expensive vandalism.....

What gives the right for i'm guessing youngters to do this. The amount of damage caused. I agree security measures are needed to keep the trains safe. Those MK3's Coaches are expensive I didnt know just how much! Lets hope the Portlaoise Depot does'nt reach this.