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Multiple units of Ireland

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straddled the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, and so was not incorporated in either the CIE or UTA. However, mounting losses saw the network purchased jointly by the Irish and British governments on Tuesday 1 September 1953. It was run as a joint board, independent of the CIE and
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have been used on Ireland's railways. This page lists all those that have been used. Except with the NIR Class 3000, the numbers given by each class in the lists below are those allocated to the coaches that make up the units in that class, otherwise, unit numbers are not used in Ireland.
43:(CIÉ), which controlled the Republic's railways between 1945 and 1987, mainly used locomotives and hauled stock for its passenger trains. What diesel multiple unit cars it did have were numbered in the 26xx series. Since 1987, 1744: 610:
The majority of passenger services in Northern Ireland have been operated by diesel multiple units since the mid-1950s (the major exception being the locomotive-hauled
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UTA, until Tuesday 30 September 1958 when it was dissolved and the remaining stock split equally between the 2 railways.
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which runs on a separate network. Its fleet of electric multiple units are numbered in the 8xxx series.
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Despite appearing to be a DMU (especially the Driving Van-Trailer end), the Dublin Cork service
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for use as the Rail Head Treatment Train, equipped to lay
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Down Railway 51:(DART) system, in addition to the 25: 1209:Ulster Folk and Transport Museum 996:Great Northern Railway (Ireland) 990:Great Northern Railway (Ireland) 979: 949: 921: 895: 866: 838: 812: 784: 624:), under the tenure of both the 595: 575: 552: 521: 492: 459: 399: 368: 340: 312: 295: 264: 232: 200: 122: 1262:Donegal Railway Heritage Centre 1740:Iarnród Éireann multiple units 641:Windhoff Multi-Purpose Vehicle 1: 1690:Diesel locomotives of Ireland 1389:Rail freight stock of Ireland 1384:Diesel locomotives of Ireland 647:and high-pressure water. 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Index

Multiple Units of Ireland
multiple units
Córas Iompair Éireann
Iarnród Éireann
Dublin Area Rapid Transit
Luas
Mark 4
Push–pull train
AEC Class
AEC

GNR

Inchicore Works
BUT Class
BUT

80 Class
BREL
NIR

2600 Class (II)
Tokyu Car Corporation

2700 Class
GEC Alsthom

2750 Class

2800 Class

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