Thats a good sign in itself. They really can get the finger out when they have to. Not often I have praise for Irish Rail, but the Permanent Way boys are in many ways the unsung heroes in there.
Hopefully it will all be up and running within 3 months. The trouble is that the newspapers will want to sensationalise it on a slow news day, and engage in scaremongering.
Lets face it....we have faced 25 years minus a passenger fatality on Irish Railways, and I doubt that any other Railway system in the world has that record. But it could so easily have been a tragedy.
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