Train Dates for 1975.
(Note: Belfast YR = Belfast York Road; Belfast CSD = Belfast Central Services Depot; Belfast GVS = Belfast Great Victoria Street; ECS = Empty Coaching Stock; LE = Light Engine; GM = Railway company diesel locomotive; Whitehead generally means the RPSI's own Whitehead Excursion Station.)
Date | Train/Operation | Loco | Itinerary/Route | Special Notes |
Light Engine | Sallins - Mullingar | |||
Ballymena & Larne | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Ballymena - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
Light Engine | Whitehead - Larne Harbour - Whitehead | Running-in trip. | ||
Light Engine | Mullingar - Athlone - Mullingar | Trial run for CIÉ. | ||
Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Pearse | |||
Burma Road | 171: Dublin Connolly - Castlerea 186 LE: Dublin Connolly - Castlerea 171: Castlerea - Claremorris 186: Castlerea - Claremorris 186: Claremorris - Sligo - Sligo Quay - Sligo |
Train splitting between Castlerea and Claremorris. | ||
Burma Road | 186: Sligo - Claremorris 171: Claremorris - Dublin Connolly - Belfast GVS |
The last two-day tour to terminate at the old Great Victoria Street terminus. | ||
Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush LE: Portrush - Coleraine - Londonderry & return Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Light engine run was to turn. | ||
Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast GVS | |||
Ardee | Belfast GVS - Dunleer - Ardee - Dromin Junction - Drogheda - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Last steam train from the old Great Victoria Street terminus before its closure on 12 April 1976 and also the last passenger train on the Ardee branch. | ||
Engine Transfer | Inchicore - Thurles | Towed dead. | ||
Engine Transfer | Thurles - Cork | Towed dead. |