If you attended our diesel gala on Saturday, you will have realised that we have been keeping an awful lot of work on 121 class diesel locomotive 124 secret. Well now the secret is out… 124 has been consuming an awful lot of our time behind the scenes, way more than we posted publicly on […]

On Saturday 23rd August we welcomed an excited bunch of visitors to Downpatrick and County Down Railway for the diesel day. As always, we had a few secrets in store but the biggest secret of all was finally revealed,..  the first passenger working of a 121 class locomotive in preservation. Those lucky enough to get […]

A39R made a return to passenger service at Downpatrick on Saturday 2nd August, over two and a half years after its last passenger working at January 2023 diesel gala. The locomotive had been out of service after the disastrous flooding at Downpatrick in November 2023 and Saturday marked its return to passenger service after repairs.  […]