Train Dates for 1987.
(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 | Whitehead - Downpatrick | Taken by low-loader from to Downpatrick for use on the Downpatrick Railway. | ||
| Empty carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn LE: Lisburn - Belfast CSD |
No.4 failed at Lisburn. The carriages continued, diesel-hauled, to Dublin on 8th May | ||
| Empty carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR LE: Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast CSD |
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| Engine Transfer | Belfast CSD - Dublin Connolly | |||
| Lough Gill | Dublin Pearse - Sligo Sligo - Ballymote & return (x2, local trips) |
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| Lough Gill | 171 LE: Sligo - Sligo Quay - Sligo 171: Sligo - Mullingar - Moate - Mullingar - Dublin Connolly 85 LE: Whitehead - Belfast YR 85: Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly 85: Dublin Connolly - Belfast Central 85 LE: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD 171: Dublin Connolly - Belfast Central 171 LE: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
No.171 coaled at Sligo Quay. No.85 picked up 3 coaches in York Road. No.85 worked the main tour train to Belfast. |
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| Lough Gill | LE: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Lisburn - Coleraine - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
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| Empty carriages | Belfast CSD - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Support coach. | ||
| Empty carriages | Mullingar - Athlone - Athenry - Ennis | |||
| Ennis Festival | Ennis - Gort & return (x3) | |||
| Ennis Festival | Ennis - Gort & return (x3) | |||
| Empty carriages | Ennis - Athenry - Mullingar | |||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | Advertised as the 50th Flyer. | ||
| Irish Locomotive Appeal | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR -Whitehead | An evening supper train to raise funds for locomotive appeal - a forerunner of the mid-summer jazz trains. | ||
| 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 | |||
| Portrush Flyer | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Portrush - Coleraine - Castlerock - Coleraine - Portrush - Belfast YR - Whitehead | |||
| Empty carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast Central - Belfast CSD | |||
| 40th Anniversary Enterprise | 85 LE: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central 171 LE: Whitehead - Antrim -Lisburn - Newry 85: Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly (non-stop) 171 LE: Newry - Drogheda - Dundalk 85: Dublin Connolly - Dundalk 171+85: Dundalk - Belfast Central 171+85 ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
Charter of locomotive and coaches by NIR to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 'Enterprise' express. Non-stop to Dublin, then NIR's guests returned to Belfast by modern traction. No.171's movements were to provide a pilot in case of failure. |
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| Empty carriages | Mullingar - Dublin Pearse LE: - Dublin Connolly |
The first time a steam locomotive had been stabled at Connolly shed since it re-opened as a diesel shed. | ||
| Clonsilla Shuttle | LE: Dublin Connolly - Dublin Pearse Dublin Pearse - Clonsilla & return (x3) |
The first trip was via Newcomen Junction, the rest via North Strand Junction. | ||
| Empty carriages | 4: Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Belfast Central 171: Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Engine exchange working. | ||
| Steam Enterprise | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly & return ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
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| Bangor Belle | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Bangor & return (x3) 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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| Clonsilla Shuttle | LE: Dublin Connolly - Dublin Pearse Dublin Pearse - Clonsilla & return (x3) |
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| Empty carriages | Whitehead - Belfast YR - Antrim - Lisburn - Dublin Connolly | Three carriages for film contract, hauled by 111. Around lunchtime on this memorable day there were seventeen RPSI coaches and two RPSI locomotives in steam in the vicinity of Connolly station. |
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| Film Contract | Dublin Connolly - Greystones Greystones - Wicklow & return (x3) |
Filming for "Troubles" film. Engine stabled at Greystones. | ||
| Film Contract | Greystones - Wicklow & return (x3) | Filming for "Troubles" film. Engine stabled at Greystones. | ||
| Empty carriages | Greystones - Rosslare Harbour - Waterford | |||
| Film Contract | Waterford - Carrick-on-Suir Carrick-on-Suir - Fiddown & return (x2) |
Filming for "Echoes" film. Train propelled on return between Carrick and Waterford. |
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| Film Contract | Waterford - Carrick-on-Suir Carrick-on-Suir - Fiddown & return (x2) |
Filming for "Echoes" film. Train propelled on return between Carrick and Waterford. |
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| Empty carriages | Waterford - Limerick Junction - Limerick - Athenry - Athlone - Mullingar | |||
| Steam Enterprise | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Dublin Connolly & return ECS: Belfast Central - Belfast CSD |
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| Wedding Belle | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central - Bangor Bangor - Antrim - Belfast YR - Whitehead |
Private charter, the first known use in Ireland of a mainline steam train for a wedding reception. | ||
| Larne Lough | ECS: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central Belfast Central - Lisburn - Antrim - Belfast YR - Larne Harbour - Belfast YR -Whitehead |
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| Film Contract | Mullingar - Moate & return | The Dawning film. |