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units were already coming into service. The refurbishment involved re-liverying the trains in the refreshed corporate branding. NI Railways has also started to refurbish its 3000 Class in
November 2018, and is scheduled to refurbish all the twenty-three 3000's. The refurbishment program is expected
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whilst travelling at 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). The leading vehicle (3413) was severely damaged and a passenger was injured. The unit 3013 was returned to revenue service in
November 2018.
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DEMUs, which had been in service since the mid-1970s, and were becoming increasingly harder to maintain. NIR had not procured new rolling stock since 1994, when, in conjunction with
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Thursday 2 August 2007, unit 3014 hit a tractor, killing the tractor driver, and severely damaging the front of the train (3414).
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