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Whitehead Railway Museum
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Whitehead Railway Museum
Gauging Success
Dermot Mackie describes the processes for maintaining good track gauge.
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Early Train Rides
Просмотров 2452 месяца назад
Some fascinating footage by James White of early trains rides at Whiteheads - pre health & safety days! At the platform are, right to left, both Guinness Vans (one with its new doors open for the sale of refreshments and other goodies), the Irish Shell tanker and the Steam Train Rides train of locomotive No.3BG, an open wagon and GNR(I) good brake van 44. The open wagon has two platform seats, ...
Whitehead Railway Museum - A Flying Visit
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A drone's eye view of all that our museum has to offer. (Mark Gray)
Santa Trains 2022
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Nobody knew it at the time, but the 2022 Santa season proved sadly to be the final RPSI steam operation for long-standing NIR driver Noel Playfair. Noel died suddenly in January 2023 and the RPSI remembers his contribution over many years with heartfelt gratitude. Providentially, the 2022 Belfast Santa operation was covered by Mark Gray, who used his drone camera to record some magical footage ...
Halloween At Whitehead
Просмотров 236Год назад
A look at the Halloween train rides at Whitehead for Halloween 2022. (Mark Gray)
Knowing the Drill
Просмотров 324Год назад
One of the videos specially made for Industrial Heritage Week 2023 features the Whitehead site squad and shows how they overcame a problem when sleepers received from Translink were found not to be the correct fit for bullhead rail chairs.
Fit For A Queen
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Richard Kenny tells how our GNR(I) directors' saloon was used in the royal train of 1953.
Distinguished Diesels
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Richard Kenny outlines the long relationship between Irish railways and the diesel locomotive manufacturer General Motors in the USA.
Probably A Robbery
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John White relates how Sean Connery was relegated to the co-star of steam locomotive No.184 in the film "The First Great Train |Robbery".
Raising A Gauge Glass
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Workshop Foreman Jim Adams describes the use of a water gauge glass on steam locomotive No.131.
A Flagging Guard
Просмотров 117Год назад
Mark Walsh describes a guard's use of flags to communicate with his driver.
Steam And Stout
Просмотров 167Год назад
Sue Harpur relates how our very first steam locomotive, No.3BG "Guinness", made the drinkers of Ireland very happy.
6:40 461! aka the best RPSI steam engine
Will it be going ALL around Ireland?
Yes! We like to get around as much of the 5'3" network as possible, especially with our annual May railtours which go to different destinations each year. 131 will play a big part in those, and our other main line trips all year round!
i am sad that the other Guinness engine was scrapped
Thanks for making a great video. Good mix of historical and technical information, all clearly explained and set in the context of the period. I hope you will make many more videos in future. I look forward to seeing the Guinness engine again soon at Whitehead Railway Museum.
Excellent video! Do the RPSI have any future plans to rebuild extinct steam Loco's ? I heard of plans to build a Class W Mogul.
We are currently working on building a replica Class W boiler. It will be a spare boiler for our class WT No. 4, and in the future could potentially be part of a recreated Class W or WT.
Is there any news on the SLNCR tank 0-6-4 Lough Erne? I would really like to see her run. I would also really like to see no. 800 "meadhbh" run aswell. I think it would be very good to have an engine of that size because it means larger trains can be pulled. It would be a nice change to see a 4-6-0 on the line.
Thanks for the question! It would be amazing to see 800 in steam some day - it's not our decision, but we'd all love to see it! It certainly could pull a big train, but a major down side is that a lot of lines would not be able to accommodate the engine's size weight. (When we helped move it to Cultra in 1993, the safety valves were actually taken off to make sure it would get under the bridges!) We find that engines like 4 and 85 give us the correct balance between range, speed and power to allow us to operate on modern main lines. Lough Erne would not pose any problems for weight or size, but would probably not be able to pull a big enough train to make main line operation viable. Although we have no current plans to return Lough Erne to steam, we hope to display it more prominently in the museum - it has such an interesting history! Upvote this comment if you'd like Lough Erne to be the subject of a future video :)
Lovely Video !
Nice Video!😃.What happened to the other Guinness Engine?.
It went for scrap about 1965. Ours is the only remaining 5'3" gauge Guinness engine, but there are also 8 narrow gauge engines preserved at other museums.
Whitehead Railway Museum Can you do a Video on No.461 soon.Also what is next with No.461 is comming back into Service or getting an overhaul?.
i will be going on the branchline explores
nice documentary on 131 do a documentary on 461 cause everyone loves that train
Very good commentary indeed.
Thank you!
Fantastic video!
Thank you! :)
What a great engine! Excited to see it running again!
Lovely Historic Video!😃.
Thank you! We'll be making more like this if it's popular, so if you enjoyed it be sure to share it with others!
Whitehead Railway Museum I sure will!😃.
Can't wait till i go there
Lovely Advert!😃.
Thank you!