Lough Gill Railtour (1987) - Whitehead Railway Museum

Saturday 9th May: (171) Dublin Pearse - Sligo; Sligo - Ballymote & return [x2 local trips]. No.171 coaled at Sligo Quay. Sunday 10th May: (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 - Belfast Central; (85 LE) Belfast Central - Belfast CSD; (171) Dublin Connolly - Belfast Central; (171 LE) Belfast Central - Belfast CSD. No.85 picked up 3 coaches in York Road. No.85 worked the main tour train to Belfast. Monday 11th May: (85) LE: Belfast CSD - Belfast Central; (685) Belfast Central - Lisburn - Coleraine - Belfast YR - Whitehead.

9/5/1987: No.171 alongside the Royal canal near Leixlip. (J. Hunt)

9/5/1987: Taking water at Enfield.

9/5/1987: Water is available on the Galway platform at Mullingar so No.171 uncouples from its train on the Sligo platform.

9/5/1987: At Mullingar's Down Galway platform for water.

9/5/1987: Longford was still a busy container depot, with an overhead gantry crane.

9/5/1987: The makeshift watering system connected to the one-time column feed at Longford.

9/5/1987: No.171 poses at Longford.

9/5/1987: A stop at Carrick-on-Shannon.

9/5/1987: Runpast at Ballymote.

10/5/1987: On Sunday morming, No.171 comes up from Sligo Quays where it was coaled.

10/5/1987: 133 + 135 at Sligo, with No.171 behind the cabin. This pairing of 121 locomotives was a feature of the Sligo and Rosslare lines.

10/5/1987: A view of Dromod before the area to the right was established as the base for the Cavan & Leitrim heritage railway.

10/5/1987: At Longford the locomotive has set back to access water, which is beside the bridge at the Sligo end of the Down platform.

10/5/1987: Leaving Longford. St Mel's Cathedral in the background was bady damaged by fire on Christmas Day 2009, and was closed for nearly three years.

10/5/1987: Running along the shore of Lough Owel on the approaches to Mullingar.

10/5/1987: After Mullingar, there was a trip out the Galway line to Moate, where No.171 is running round.

10/5/1987: The train is passing Castletown on the return from Moate. (C. O'Callaghan)

10/5/1987: At Dublin Connolly, No.85 came on for the run north.

11/5/1987: On Monday there was a trip to Coleraine, and No.85 is viewed at Lisburn on the way from Belfast.

11/5/1987: No.85 at Lisburn.

11/5/1987: The train has stopped at Gleavy on the Antrim branch, blowing off for a runpast.

11/5/1987: As Sullivan Boomer in the orange vest looks on, the photographers spoil the view of the Glenavy runpast.

11/5/1987: Runpast at Glenavy.

11/5/1987: Even more photographers in the other direction!

11/5/1987: No.85 has made it to Coleraine and is on the turntable which was commissioned only the year before. (J. Hunt)

11/5/1987: The return train entering Ballymena. (J. Hunt)

11/5/1987: As the train leaves Ballymena it passes the NCC somersault signal for the section. (J. Hunt)

11/5/1987: The train has reached Belfast, where the locomotive has turned, and is passing Fortwilliam on the way back to Whitehead. (J. Hunt)