Welcome to the Website of the Irish Traction Group

Ireland's Largest Diesel Preservation Group
 

The Irish Traction Group (ITG) was formed on the 4th June 1989 with the objective of preserving at least one example of each class of diesel locomotive to have operated on the Irish railway system. The ultimate aim of the Group is to restore its collection of locomotives to full operational condition. The ITG specifically caters for the modern traction enthusiast, providing up to date news of events and workings on the railway system via its quarterly journal "The Irish Mail". The ITG owns the largest number of privately owned main line diesel locomotives in Ireland and operates occasional railtours both in the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom. Membership Renewals are now due. To renew your membership online click here. Help Support the Irish Traction Group – Donate via PayPal! The Irish Traction Group is heavily reliant on regular and one-off donations to help fund its continuing preservation activities, including meeting the costs of maintaining its current operational fleet of locomotives and also to cover the cost of restoring other locomotives to working order. All donations, no matter how small, are always welcome. If you wish to make a donation to the Group using the PayPal facility, then simply click on the DONATE button below and follow the on-screen instructions. Donations can be made by using any major credit or debit card. Thank you. Help Support the Irish Traction Group by doing your on-line shopping via our own web-shop! Now you can help support and donate money to the Irish Traction Group whenever you shop on-line – at no extra cost to yourself! The ITG has teamed up with BUY.AT and set up its own web-shop. Whenever you purchase an item from one of the many shopping retailers who have already signed up to the scheme which includes, amongst others, eBay.com, Amazon.com, and Play.com, via our web-shop, then BUY.AT will pay over a commission on all sales made to the Irish Traction Group at no additional cost to you! For further information of the scheme, and details of how to use this service, simply click on the BUY AT ITG button on the left hand side of this page. Website Photographs The Irish Traction Group is always looking for photographs of Irish diesel locomotives and other associated rolling stock for display on our website. If you have any photographs that you would like to submit for possible inclusion on the website. There are two areas where we are looking for photos, the withdrawn locos section and the Railtour Archive. If you can help please e-mail your photos to: Scans of photographs and slides are also acceptable. Please note there is an email size limit of 2Mb per email. If the total size is greater than this you will need to split the photos across a number of emails. Pictures will be accredited and remain the copyright of the photographer. If you would like to use any of the images on this website, please e-mail the address shown above, and we will put you in contact with the original photographer. Please feel free to explore our website.

Photo of the Month (November 2011) 080 passes Islandbridge Jn with an RPSI railtour 23/07/2011. Photo: Ciarán Cooney  Do you have a photo for photo of the month? If you have any photos of Irish Traction you would like to see here send to the website email address. Latest Website Update Railtour Archive Updates We have recently received some more photos of ITG operated railtours. The photo archive is very close to being complete. Do you have any of the missing photos you would be willing to let us use on this site to allow us to complete the collection? Most of the ITG loco pages have been updated to reflect recent changes A new page has been created for the ITG's latest loco 152 Some items of merchandise have been reduced in price