Your reply didn't really address the issues Frank raised about europe-wide technical standardization and purchasing co-ordination.

You have covered some of the issues relating to technical standardization previously and the co-ordination issue is a mess. Like so much else railways are a continental resource organised at national level with poor co-ordination. This is where Frank's point about regional funding comes in. For here Europe is Ireland writ large.

I think that's where he was going anyway

keep to the Fen Causeway