Train Dates for 1968.
(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 | Belfast YR-Whitehead | |||
| Olderfleet | 27: Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Whitehead Excursion - Belfast YR 3BG: Belfast YR - Belfast Harbour Commissioners' tramway |
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| Engine Transfer | Belfast YR - Whitehead | Hauled out of steam by WT class No.6. | ||
| Engine Transfer | Delivered to Harland & Wolff for heavy overhaul | |||
| Light Engine | Whitehead - Belfast YR | |||
| Engine Transfer | Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly | With GNR Directors' saloon 50 and LMS(NCC) brake first 198. | ||
| Slieve Cualann | 56: Belfast GVS - Dublin Connolly 186: Dublin Connolly - Wicklow Goods - Wicklow Passenger - Dublin Connolly 56 LE: Dublin - Enfield & return 56: Dublin - Belfast GVS |
Official handover of No.186 at Connolly. No 186 was piloted by B147 from Wicklow to Bray, as tender-first running was not permitted around Bray Head. No.56 checked for clearance to Enfield for the following two-day tour. |
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| Empty Carriages | Dublin - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | LE from York Road. | ||
| Engine Transfer | No.171 left Harland & Wolff after overhaul. | |||
| Naomh Ciaran | 4: Belfast GVS - Dublin Connolly 4+186: Dublin Connolly - Enfield 186: Enfield - Athlone - Ballinasloe - Athlone 4: Enfield - Dublin Connolly |
First ever two-day tour. No.4 was still an NIR locomotive at this time. |
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| Naomh Ciaran | 186: Athlone - Roscommon - Athlone - Clara (stub of Streamstown branch)-Portarlington 4 (dining cars): Dublin - Portarlington 4: Portarlington - Dublin Heuston 186 (dining cars): Portarlington - Dublin Heuston 186: Dublin Connolly - Dún Laoghaire Pier & return 4: Dublin Connolly - Belfast GVS |
Dining cars used for lunch at Portarlington. | ||
| 186 Goes Home | Dublin Heuston - Kilkenny - Dublin (Heuston) | An IRRS charter of the locomotive. | ||
| ??/10 | Engine Transfer | 186 | Dublin - Whitehead | |
| Colmcille | 50: Belfast YR - Antrim 50+186: Antrim - Lisburn - Portadown 50: Portadown - Poyntzpass 186: Portadown - Poyntzpass 50+186: Poyntzpass - Dundalk 50: Dundalk - Portadown 50+186: Portadown - Antrim - Belfast YR |
This tour had been planned to run to Londonderry, but floods washed away a bridge at Glarryford and the route was changed. Train splitting between Portadown and Poyntzpass. |