Train Dates for 1975.

(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
24/01
Light Engine
186
Sallins - Mullingar  
05/04
Ballymena & Larne
171
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Ballymena - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
??/05
Light Engine
171
Whitehead - Larne Harbour - Whitehead Running-in trip.
17/05
Light Engine
186
Mullingar - Athlone - Mullingar Trial run for CIÉ.
28/05
Empty Carriages
171
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Pearse  
31/05
Burma Road
171, 186
171: Dublin Connolly - Castlerea
186 LE: Dublin Connolly - Castlerea
171: Castlerea - Claremorris
186: Castlerea - Claremorris
186: Claremorris - Sligo - Sligo Quay - Sligo
Train splitting between Castlerea and Claremorris.
01/06
Burma Road
171, 186
186: Sligo - Claremorris
171: Claremorris - Dublin Connolly - Belfast GVS
The last two-day tour to terminate at the old Great Victoria Street terminus.
19/07
Portrush Flyer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
02/08
Portrush Flyer
171
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush
LE: Portrush - Coleraine - Londonderry & return
Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead
Light engine run was to turn.
16/08
Portrush Flyer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
30/08
Portrush Flyer
4
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead  
03/10
Empty Carriages
171
Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast GVS  
04/10
Ardee
171
Belfast GVS - Dunleer - Ardee - Dromin Junction - Drogheda - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead Last steam train from the old Great Victoria Street terminus before its closure on 12 April 1976 and also the last passenger train on the Ardee branch.
19/11
Engine Transfer
184, 461
Inchicore - Thurles Towed dead.
20/11
Engine Transfer
184, 461
Thurles - Cork Towed dead.