Train Dates for 1983.
(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 |
| Film Contract | Whitehead - Carrickfergus - Whitehead | Filming for "Aunt Suzanne" took place at Carrickfergus. | ||
| Easter Bunny | Mullingar - Multyfarnham & return Mullingar - Killucan & return Mullingar - Castletown & return (x2) |
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| Claddagh | Mullingar - Athlone - Galway - Attymon - Galway - Athlone - Mullingar | |||
| Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly - Mullingar | First year of running 'under the wires' in the Dublin area. | ||
| Port Lairge | 171 ECS: Mullingar - Athlone - Portarlington - Dublin Heuston 171: Dublin Heuston - Kilkenny 184: Kilkenny - Waterford - Campile - Waterford 171 LE: Kilkenny - Kildare - Limerick 184 LE: Waterford - Rosslare - Waterford |
Local trip to Campile. No.184 ran to Rosslare to turn. No.171 stabled in Limerick. | ||
| Port Lairge | 171 LE: Limerick - Carrick on Suir 184: Waterford - Carrick on Suir 171+184: Carrick on Suir - Limerick Junction 171: Limerick Junction - Dublin Connolly - Belfast Central 184 LE: Limerick Junction - Portarlington - Athlone - Mullingar |
Complete train was turned at Limerick Junction due to an even number of reversals. | ||
| Empty Carriages | Belfast CSD - Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Private Charter | Mullingar - Athlone - Mullingar | Charter by General Council for County Councils. | ||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Tenth Anniversary Portrush Flyer. | ||
| Running-in | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Light engine. The loco was taken into the works on the traverser and weighed. | ||
| Running-in | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Ballymena - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Empty carriages. | ||
| Portrush Flyer | 4+171: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush 4: Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush 4+171: Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Running in test for No.4. | ||
| Running-in | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Ballymena - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Empty carriages. | ||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast Central - Belfast CSD | |||
| Running-in | Mullingar - Moate - Mullingar | Light engine. | ||
| Steam Enterprise | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly Diesel: Dublin Connolly - Belfast Central ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD 4 LE: Dublin Connolly - Lisburn - Belfast YR - Whitehead 171 LE: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Lisburn - Belfast CSD |
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| Private Charter | Belfast Central - Portadown - Belfast Central | Charter by Belfast Chamber of Commerce. | ||
| 06/09 | Private Charter | Diesel | Belfast Central - Londonderry - Belfast Central | Charter by Belfast Chamber of Commerce. Hauled by Hunslet locomotive. |
| 07/09 | Private Charter | Diesel | Belfast Central - Ballymena - Belfast Central | Charter by Belfast Chamber of Commerce. Hauled by Hunslet locomotive. |
| Steam Enterprise | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly & return ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
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| Dublin Bay | LE: Mullingar - Dublin Connolly Dublin Connolly - Bray & return (x3) ECS: Dublin Connolly - Mullingar |
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| Belfast Lough | Belfast CSD - Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR -Whitehead | |||
| Film Contract | Mullingar - Moate - Mullingar | Film contract for "The Irish RM". | ||
| Film Contract | Mullingar - Moate - Mullingar | Film contract for "A Painful Case". |