Train Dates for 1982.
(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 |
| Engine Transfer | Harland & Wolff - Belfast YR | Moved by low-loader. | ||
| Engine Transfer | Belfast YR - Whitehead | Towed by NIR diesel-hydraulic No.3. | ||
| Test Run | Mullingar - Athlone & return | |||
| Easter Bunny | Mullingar - Multyfarnham & return Mullingar - Castletown & return (x2) |
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| Claddagh | Mullingar - Galway - Attymon Junction - Galway - Mullingar | |||
| Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Mullingar | |||
| Thomond | 171 ECS: Mullingar - Dublin Connolly 171: Dublin Connolly - Portarlington - Athlone 184: Athlone - Attymon - Limerick 171: Athlone - Portarlington - Limerick Junction - Limerick 184 LE: Limerick - Limerick Junction & return (to turn) |
No.171 was banned from working between Athenry and Limerick. | ||
| Thomond | 184: Limerick - Foynes - Limerick 171+184: Limerick - Roscrea 171: Roscrea - Ballybrophy - Dublin Connolly Diesel: Dublin Connolly - Dundalk |
The Foynes leg included the stub of the North Kerry line at Ballingrane. Due to hot bogie axlebox, 171 was failed at Dublin and the tour continued diesel-hauled to Dundalk, where it terminated due to industrial action on NIR. |
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| Engine Transfer | Dublin - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Empty Carriages | Dundalk - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Running-in | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Running-in | 4 LE: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Carrickfergus - Greenisland - Belfast YR - Whitehead 171 LE: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
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| Trial Train | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Running-in | ECS: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead LE: Whitehead - Greenisland - Whitehead |
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| Portrush Flyer | 4: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush 171: Whitehead - Bleach Green - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead 4 LE: Portrush - Belfast YR |
No.4 ran a hot driving axlebox and big. The crew were conveyed from Portrush to Whitehead by car. No.171 was lit up and worked light engine via the Bleach Green emergency crossover. No.4 stabled in York Road as the Larne line had closed for the night. |
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| Engine Transfer | Belfast YR - Whitehead | Towed by diesel. | ||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast CSD | |||
| Steam Enterprise | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly & return ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
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| Steam Enterprise | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly & return ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
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| Shopping Special | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly |
One-way trip. | ||
| Film Contract | LE: Dublin Connolly - Dublin Heuston - Inchicore - Dublin Heuston - Dublin Connolly | The coaches were worked to Sallins by diesel for filming, then returned to Heuston before dispatch to Mullingar. | ||
| Empty Carriages | Dublin - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Train composed of 2 coaches. | ||
| Santa Special | Mullingar - Athlone Athlone - Moate & return (x3) Athlone - Mullingar |
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| Santa Special | Mullingar - Multyfarnham & return Mullingar - Killucan & return Mullingar - Castletown & return Mullingar - Castletown & return |