Train Dates for 1984.
(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 |
| ARPS Award Special | ECS: Whitehead - Belfast YR Belfast YR - Carrickfergus - Belfast YR ECS: Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Celebration of the RPSI's winning the Association of Railway Preservation Societies Annual Award. | ||
| Running-in | LE: Whitehead - Carrickfergus - Magheramorne Magheramorne - Belfast YR - Magheramorne LE: Magheramorne - Whitehead |
Ballast hoppers were taken to York Road, shunted and returned to Magheramorne. | ||
| Running-in | LE: Whitehead - Magheramorne Magheramorne - MP18 - Magheramorne LE: Magheramorne - Whitehead |
Train of ballast hoppers discharged at MP18 | ||
| Running-in | LE: Whitehead - Belfast YR Belfast YR - Ballymena - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Bogie flats to Ballymena to load sleepers. Wagons of sleepers and empty hoppers to Belfast. Empty hoppers York Road to Whitehead. | ||
| Running-in | Whitehead - Magheramorne - MP18 - Magheramorne LE: Magheramorne - Whitehead |
Hoppers loaded at Magheramorne; discharged at MP18. Returned to Magheramorne to shunt. | ||
| Running-in | LE: Whitehead - Magheramorne Magheramorne - Belfast YR - Antrim - Belfast CSD LE: Belfast CSD - Antrim - Whitehead |
Loaded hoppers to York Road. Bogie heating van York Road to CSD. | ||
| Running-in | LE: Mullingar - Killucan & return | |||
| Running-in | ECS: Whitehead - Belfast YR Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Bangor - Belfast CSD LE: Belfast CSD - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Fitted vans conveying bicycles for a charity cycle marathon also between York Road and Bangor. | ||
| Enfield Shuttle | 184+1: Mullingar - Dublin Connolly Dublin Connolly - Enfield & return ECS: Dublin Connolly - Mullingar |
A second round trip was cancelled due to a blown gland. | ||
| Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin & return | An NIR 70 class diesel set worked an RPSI coaching stock to Dublin, returning with a different set of vehicles. | ||
| Claddagh | Mullingar - Galway - Attymon Junction - Galway - Mullingar | |||
| Empty Carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly - Mullingar | |||
| Galway Bay | 171 ECS: Mullingar - Dublin Connolly 184 LE: Mullingar - Athlone - Claremorris 171: Dublin Connolly - Mullingar - Athlone - Claremorris 184: Claremorris - Athenry - Galway 171+2: Claremorris - Castlerea 171+2 ECS: Castlerea - Athlone - Mullingar - Athlone - Galway |
Claremorris to Castlerea was a local public excursion, returning by service train. | ||
| Galway Bay | 171: Galway - Ballinasloe 184: Galway - Ballinasloe 171+184: Ballinasloe - Athlone 171: Athlone - Mullingar - Dublin Connolly - Belfast Central 171 LE: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD 184 LE: Ballinasloe - Athlone - Mullingar |
Train split and 'leap frogging' with both engines Galway to Ballinasloe, with engines side by side at Athenry. | ||
| Galway Bay | LE: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Whitehead |
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| Private Charter | Whitehead - Belfast YR -Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Hired by Lord O'Neill. | ||
| Film Contract | Mullingar - Blakestown Crossing (MP 12¼ from Broadstone) - Mullingar | Remington Steele TV series. | ||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| 27/07 | Engine Transfer | 4 | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Locomotive worked to York Road to be weighed in the Works there. |
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Bangor Belle | 4: Whitehead - Greenisland DH1+train+4: Greenisland - Whiteabbey 4: Whiteabbey - Antrim - Belfast Central - Bangor - Belfast Central 4 ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
Resignalling at York Road meant that the station was closed. So this train ran to Greenisland normally, then DH2 (the only recorded instance of a passenger train being worked by this class of diesel!) was attached as train engine, with No.4 banking to Whiteabbey. No.4 then worked the train over the Bleach Green emergency crossover on to the down main line to Antrim. | ||
| 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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| Larne Lough | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR -Whitehead |
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| Engine Transfer | Mullingar - Border | Move by low-loader. | ||
| Engine Transfer | Border - Whitehead | Move by low-loader. Tender followed by road, with a similar overnight, on 26-27 January 1985. |
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| First Steaming | Whitehead |