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 […]

Just seven days after 190's startup, our volunteers turned their attention turned to our preserved 121 class loco, 124, on Saturday 14th June. The 121 class were the GM locomotives exported to Europe back in 1960, and so 124 is very historically important and her first start up in preservation has been much anticipated by […]

Following 190's arrival in Downpatrick on Sunday 1st June, our volunteers have wasted no time in commencing work on her revival. Just one week later, on Saturday 7th June, our team had her started and rumbling away nicely in that iconic GM tune. No mean feat considering the loco hadn't operated since November 2009. A […]