Train Dates for 2024.

(Note: Belfast LP = Belfast Lanyon Place; 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.)

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Date Train/Operation Loco Itinerary/Route Special Notes
18/03 Steam Whitehead - St Patrick’s 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
24/03 Midlander 131 Dublin Connolly - Maynooth & return (x2)  
30/03 Steam Whitehead - Wee Critters 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
01/04 Easter Eggstravaganza 131 Dublin Connolly - Drogheda; Drogheda - Dundalk & return; Drogheda - Skerries & return; Drogheda - Dublin  
01/04 Steam Whitehead - Easter Bunny 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
21/04 Sea Breeze 131, GM 131: Dublin Connolly - Rathdrum
082: Rathdrum - Dublin Connolly
Train terminated by Irish Rail owing to lineside fires. Towed back from Rathdrum.
06/05 Steam Whitehead - Blooming May Day 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
12/05 Cú Chulainn GM Dublin Connolly - Dundalk & return; Dundalk - Drogheda & return GM replaced No.131 because of a temporary steam ban.
01/06 Steam Whitehead 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
15/06 201 @ 30 GM 084: Dublin Heuston - Kildare
219: Kildare - Dublin - Rosslare Harbour - Dublin Connolly
 
17/07 Private Charter 131 Dublin Connolly - Drogheda - Dundalk & return Charter for Heritage Council of Ireland.
03/08 Steam Whitehead - Teddy Bear's Picnic 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
04/08 Midlander 131 Dublin Connolly - Maynooth & return (x2)  
10/08 Steam Whitehead - Food & Folk Festival 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
17/08 Steam Whitehead - Wee Critters 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
18/08 Marble City 131 Dublin Connolly - Kilkenny & return  
24/08 Steam Whitehead 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
31/08 B142 Launch B142 Whitehead Train Rides Jim Corr drove the locomotive through a red ribbon.
0/09 Dublin Riviera 131 Dublin Connolly - Bray & return
Bray - Wicklow & return
Wicklow - Greystones & return
 
08/09 RPSI 60 Special 131 Dublin Connolly - Dundalk & return
Dundalk - Drogheda & return
 
13/09 171 Launch 171   The Duke of Gloucester drove the locomotive through a red ribbon.
14/09 Steam Whitehead - European Heritage Open Day 3BG Whitehead Train Rides  
18/09 Engine Transfer 85 Dublin Connolly - Inchicore