Date: 18/03/2013

Millions of pounds is to be spent turning a steam engine depot at Whitehead, County Antrim, into a tourist attraction. The depot is currently used by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RSPI) to carry out work on their 10 locomotives. RSPI plan to create an interactive museum and said it will become an essential stop on the tourist trail. The money has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the EU-backed Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme.

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Steam railway museum in £2.5m boost

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Millions of pounds is to be spent turning a steam engine depot at Whitehead, County Antrim, into a tourist attraction.

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The RPSI operated former GNRI 4-4-0 no 85 Merlin photographed heading west from Lisburn station, Northern Ireland, with a railtour in October 1987. The rolling stock for the tour has also come from the RPSI base at Whitehead, County Antrim.
Location: Lisburn
Company: Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
/10/1987 John McIntyre

No 51 is station pilot at Belfast Great Victoria Street in August 1965.
Location: Belfast Great Victoria Street
Company: Ulster Railway
26/08/1965 K A Gray

View of an industrial Belfast long since gone, taken on 6 December 1969. The shed on the right was the only covered accommodation available at York Road depot for the handful of 'Jeep' 2-6-4Ts retained for working M2 motorway spoil trains. All the locos visible here - from l to r Nos. 5, 4 and 50 - were still active at the time and in steam, even though it was a Saturday with nothing moving.
Location: Belfast York Road
Company: Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
06/12/1969 Bill Jamieson