Train Dates for 1974.

(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.)

Dates Page

Date Train/Operation Loco Itinerary/Route Special Notes
20/04
King Fergus II
171, 186
186: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead
171: Whitehead - Larne Harbour- Whitehead
Last steam train to use the original route through the old Larne Town station.
22/05
Light Engine
171
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly  
23/05
Empty Carriages
186
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast GVS  
??/06
Engine Transfer
4
Whitehead - Larne Harbour - Whitehead Running-in trip.
20/07
Portrush Flyer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
03/08
Portrush Flyer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
17/08
Portrush Flyer
4, 171
171: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush
4: Whitehead - Bleach Green - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead
No.171 failed at Portrush and was eventually towed back dead.
31/08
Portrush Flyer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
23/09
Light Engine
186
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin - Sallins  
25/09
Empty Carriages
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly  
28/09
Silvermines
4, 186
4: Dublin Connolly - Limerick Junction
186: Limerick Junction - Clonmel & return
4: Limerick Junction - Limerick
186 LE: Limerick Junction - Limerick
 
29/09
Silvermines
4, 186
4+186: Limerick - Shallee
4+186 ECS: Shallee - Silvermines - Shallee
4: Shallee - Birdhill - Ballybrophy - Dublin - Belfast GVS
186 LE: Shallee - Ballybrophy - Sallins
 
30/09
Empty Carriages
4
Belfast GVS - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
26/10
10th Anniversary Railtour
171
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Londonderry - Belfast YR -Whitehead