Various (1962-1989)

Various views of Society trains and locomotives.

1962: No.131 pictured at Dundalk shed along with No.171 'Slieve Gullion'. (Courtesy Dundalk Facebok page)

23/3/1963: No.184 in Amiens Street yard, in the company of No.637. (R. Joanes)

22/3/1963: No.4 at York Road with one of the ubiquitous brown vans. (R. Joanes)

4/4/1963: No.186, along with fellow J15s No.130 and No.164, stored out of use in Limerick Junction. No.130 and No.186 would star in the following year's Joint Irish Railtour. (R. Joanes)

3/9/1963: No.3BG inside the Guinness brewery. No.2BG is behind, with Kingsbridge station visible beyond the wall. (T. Dorrity)

3/9/1963: No.3BG rounding one the tight curves inside the Guinness brewery. (T. Dorrity)

Mid-1960s: No.4 on a local train at Portrush. (S.J. Carse)

1964: No.171 enters Trew & Moy from the Portadown direction. (W. Adams)

24/3/1964: No.4 at Belfast York. To the right is the shed yard with its water towers and lines leading to the coaling plant, locomotive and railcar sheds. (T. Dorrity)

24/3/1964: No.27 “Lough Erne” shunting at the Belfast Harbour Commission Docks. (T. Dorrity)

24/3/1964: No.27 “Lough Erne” shunting at the Belfast Harbour Commission Docks. “Colytto” was registered to a Dutch company in Rotterdam but it was sold on to a Greek shipping company in 1967. It ran aground on the East African coast in 1972. (T. Dorrity)

25/3/1964: No.171 catches the evening light after it has passed the Lambeg Road bridge just after Lambeg Station on the 5:43pm Belfast Great Victoria Street to Lisburn stopping train. (T. Dorrity)

4/4/1964: This is believed to be the first ever railtour to or from what is now the Society's Whitehead Excursion Station. It was an RBAI Raliway Society railtour - organised by Sullivan Boomer. (D. Grimshaw)

11/6/1964: No.131 stored out of use at Mullingar. (R. Joanes)

1965: Recently acquired No.3BG "Guinness", along with future RPSI locomotive No.27 "Lough Erne", at York Road. (J.A. Cassells)

11/9/1965: UTA No.49 at Portstewart on the RPSI's inaugural tour. (J.A. Cassells)

13/3/1968: No.53, No.171 and No.3BG "Guinness" at Belfast York Road. No.53 is being prepared for the 18:20 Down stone train, and No.171 is not in steam. (J.A. Cassells)

1971: RPSI Weedkilling Train - a potato sprayer mounted on a permanent way bogie. William Watson is working the pump as Tony Ragg pushes the bogie. Peter Scott is in the doorway of his father's camper van in the shed door. (J. Allen)

1971: Members at work outside the 'Old Shed' at Whitehead. The tractor revolutionised work at the time and was replaced in latter years by the ever faithful JCB. The bread container was used to store Permanent Way materials. (J. Allen)

1971: No.27 "Lough Erne" at Whitehead. No.171 is the loco behind with a red open wagon. (J. Allen)

17/4/1971: No.186 in the cement factory siding at Drogheda on the Slieve Gullion tour. At that time No.186 was the only engine on the main line anywhere in the British Isles. (J. Allen)

29/4/1972: As Malcolm Olver rubs it down, No.27 'Lough Erne' faces No.4 at Whitehead during preparation for a visit from the Governor, Lord Grey of Naunton. Contrast that view with any from modern-day Whitehead. (J. Allen)

29/4/1972: Another shot of No.27 "Lough Erne" during Lord Grey's visit to Whitehead. There is a glimpse of Sullivan Boomer; John Richardson is the top-hatted gent with his back to the camera; Mary Friel; and Robin Morton firing. (J. Allen)

1973: No.4 at Whitehead in UTA lined black but with the paint layers cut away to reveal the old NCC letters. (J. Allen)

26/10/1974: 10th Anniversary Tour - No.171 ready for departure from Derry Waterside.

4/10/1975: No.171 running round at Ardee on the final tour to that destination. (R. Carlisle)

30/4/1977: No.186 passing Streamstown with a 'Claddagh' train. (T.M. Bagworth)

30/4/1977: No.186 departs westwards from Ballinasloe with a 'Claddagh' operation. (T.M. Bagworth)

6/8/1977: An out-of-steam No 4 has been positioned by the Planet diesel and Ken Pullin is directing the shovel with its ton load of coal. In the background No.3 'R.H. Smyth' is being steamed for train rides duty. (C.P. Friel)

3/9/1977: On a running-in trip, No.171 takes water at the tank on the stub of the harbour branch at Coleraine. It was past the level crossing, opposite the cabin.

3/9/1977: No.171's running-in trip took it to Derry, and it is ready to depart from the original Waterside station.

10/8/1978 (probably): No.85 in the Harland & Wolff engine works, Belfast, when the RPSI organised a visit. Note Lord O'Neill's Banshee showman engine behind. (A. Gray)

23/9/1978: Dublin Bay - No.186 arriving at Bray from the Greystones direction. (R. Newman)

23/9/1978: Dublin Bay - No.186 at Bray's Down platform. (R. Newman)

23/9/1979 (possibly): No.186 on the turntable at Bray, now sadly a car park. (B. Pickup)

1979: No.184 at Sutton on a Howth excursion. (B. Pickup)

1980s: J15 No.184 negotiates her way from Dublin Connolly across the city. (B. Pickup)

1980s: No.184 with an empty carriages working approaching Moate en route to Athenry. (B. Pickup)

1980s: No.171 is running into the loop platform at Lisburn. There doesn't appear to be a set of carriages, so it is probably an engine transfer between Whitehead, Belfast CSD or Dublin. (A. Gray)

13/4/1980: No.184 at Cush level crossing just on the Howth side of Sutton station on the "Dublin Bay" trips. (B. Pickup)

16/5/1980: Mullingar shed and turntable. (J. Hunt)

25/9/1982: No.171 "Slieve Gullion" was hauling a one-way nominally empty train from Belfast to Dublin. There was a batch of bad coal and the locomotive had to stop at the former station at Goraghwood for a 'blow up'.

25/9/1982: No.171 "Slieve Gullion" at Goraghwood for a 'blow up'. Inspector Frank Dunlop, on the left, and others attend to the locomotive.

1983: The actor Peter Bowles with No.184 and some of the crew at Moate, while filming scenes for the 'Irish RM'. (B. Pickup)

18/6/1983: No.184 with a charter, from Mullingar to Athlone, returning through Moate. (R. Newman)

7/9/1983: RPSI carriages being hauled by an NIR Hunslet into Ballymena on a Belfast Chamber of Commerce private charter.

30/6/1984: No.4, unusually running bunker-first, on a private charter to Portrush for Lord O’Neill - seen leaving Ballymena. (S. Martin)

27/7/1984: No. is visiting York Road to be weighed. Access to the sheds and traverser was via the turntable. (J.A. Cassells)

27/7/1984: The traverser operated from the turntable to each of the shed roads. (J.A. Cassells)

27/7/1984: The weighing shed road. Note the capstans on the traverser for moving non-powered vehicles. (J.A. Cassells)

27/8/1984: York Road was closed so the ‘Bangor Belle’ train ran to Greenisland, where DH2 was attached in front. No.4 banked to Whiteabbey where DH2 uncoupled and No.4 worked the train over the Bleach Green emergency crossover and on to Antrim. (I. Smyth)

30/9/1984: Larne Lough - No.4 speeding through Lambeg.

30/9/1984: Larne Lough - At the closed station of Kilroot.

23/11/1985: As part of a public running-in trip from Whitehead to Belfast Central for No.85, the locomotive visited the turntable at York Road.