Saturday 28th June saw another day of testing and debugging the new arrivals at Downpatrick saw 146 in multi with 190 and 124. With hours of head scratching and problem solving behind us, we could just put the locos to bed. But that would be too easier. Instead, we hauled all three locos out, and, […]

Our volunteers continue to test our preserved 121 class loco, 124, at Downpatrick, with another start-up taking place on Midsummer's Day, 21st June. We attempted to record the event in better picture and audio quality than the first start a week earlier. It wasn’t as dramatic as there was a lot less grot to blow […]

While all the attention is lavished on the Downpatrick operations, who get the glory of starting locos and acting the hero, the volunteers in our Carrick-on-Suir team really are heroes of Irish diesel preservation – handsome, rugged, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While most of the past decade and more was […]