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  By Gordon71 · Posted 1 hour ago
  
  9.12.18 .Railway Preservation Society of Ireland Santa Trains from Portadown to Lisburn & return worked by former GNR loco 131, photos taken in the Portadown Area.
- Details gleaned from Irish Railway News periodicals in the 1950s and 60s
  
  By jhb171achill · Posted 2 hours ago
  
  Yes, that was one of the 2 (or 3?) rakes of old wooden coaches kept for excursion use. They were all, as far as I know, ofswr origin - mostly corridor but a few non-corridor. Several survive - the DCDR's 837, now restored and in use; 1287, which is the staff room on the DCDR but not operational, and I think 1142 and 1097 may have come from that source too. I never travelled in them, but I certainly remember the black noisy diesels, and the noisy exhausts of the AEC, BUT and MED railcars!
- Details gleaned from Irish Railway News periodicals in the 1950s and 60s
  
  By Mayner · Posted 2 hours ago
  
  For years I thought that I had imagined seeing a big blue steam loco until I saw a colour slide of 171 about 10 years later and borrowed a copy of Colin Boockocks irish Railway Album from the library complete with several photos of 207. Ours was firmly a car and bus family, my first train ride was around 69 or 70 in a compartment coach with wooden paneling behind a black noisy diesel from Killiney to Tara Street.
- Tara mines rake in blue.
  
  By BosKonay · Posted 4 hours ago
  
  Adding this via Wrenneire
- Details gleaned from Irish Railway News periodicals in the 1950s and 60s
  
  By jhb171achill · Posted 5 hours ago
  
  That’s 207, and UTA AEC railcar sets, no doubt! Mine are of UG class locos, Jeeps and wooden carriages with a strong smell of damp in them (Lisburn, Portadown and Great Victoria Street), and big black diesels and AEC cars in Westland Row....
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