Northern Ireland Railways
Northern Ireland Railways | |
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Basic information | |
Concession and duration |
Government-owned subsidiary, no license required |
Parent company | NITHCo (Translink) |
statistics | |
fleet | 47 |
Train stations | 54 |
Main region | Northern Ireland |
website | |
Northern Ireland Railways homepage | |
Route network | |
The Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) are a state railway -Unternehmen based in Belfast , which in Northern Ireland under the umbrella of public company Translink rail links to and between Derry , Belfast, Bangor and to Dublin (in the Republic of Ireland offers).
The company was created in 1968 from the Ulster Transport Authority . It has a track network of around 350 kilometers and carried 5.9 million passengers in the 2000/2001 financial year. Northern Ireland Railways has 700 employees. Since the rail network in Ireland is thin, bus transport is far more common. In Northern Ireland, this is also operated by Translink under the names Ulsterbus and Goldline (for intercity and cross-border connections).
NIR almost exclusively has diesel railcars. The Class 3000 and Class 4000 vehicles come from the Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) from Bilbao . There are only three diesel locomotives for operational use. The route network is not electrified. Together with the rail company of the Republic of Ireland Iarnród Éireann , NIR operates a direct train connection between Dublin and Belfast under the Enterprise brand . Here, too, the railway companies compete with a range of cheaper and usually faster bus connections.
Rolling stock
Existing vehicles | ||||||
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model series | image | Type | V / max | number | Construction year | |
Class 3000 | Railcar (diesel) | 145 km / h | 23 | 2003-2005 | ||
Class 4000 | Railcar (diesel) | 145 km / h | 20th | 2010–2012 | ||
NIR class 111 | Diesel locomotive | 145 km / h | 3 | 1980-1984 | ||
NIR MPV | Construction railcar (diesel) | 100 km / h | 1 | 2016 |