>>1221349Irish Rail only own the locomotives. Northern Ireland Railways owns the carriages.
NIR wanted to buy Bombardier Voyager rolling stock, but IÉ wanted to buy CAF Mk. 4s. The two can only agree enough to renovate the current General Motors locomotive and De Dietrich stock. It's ironic that the stock was copied from the class 373 Eurostar. It was some weird déjà vu when I got on a Eurostar for the first time and it was basically identical inside.