It is intended that 171 replaces 85 when its boiler ticket expires. On July 27th 2024, 171 ran under her own steam for the first time since 2002, running back and forth at the platform at Whitehead to spread oil through her bearings.

2024年10月13日 · The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland’s beautifully restored GNR S Class 4-4-0 No.171 “Slieve Gullion” work its first passenger trains in 22 years during a day of train rides at Whitehead...

No. 171 "Slieve Gullion" was built by Beyer Peacock in Manchester in 1913, under works number 5629 as one of five class S express passenger locomotives - one of a long series of 4-4-0 designs used by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland).

No.171 "Slieve Gullion" was built by Beyer Peacock in Manchester as one of five class S express passenger locomotives - one of a long series of 4-4-0 designs used by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland).

GNRI Class S No. 171 "Slieve Gullion" One member of the class, No. 171 Slieve Gullion, is preserved. In preservation it has covered most of the Irish railway system, including many non-GNR(I) lines. The locomotive was in service until 2002 when its boiler certificate expired.

171 was described as being ‘not in very good order mechanically’, but its boiler was the best of the three, and so at the end of 1964 negotiations regarding the acquisition of the locomotive were started with the UTA.

The first steam test took place in January last year, while the wheels and frames were reunited in May 2023. At present, the RPSI is unable to operate on the main line in Northern Ireland, but plans are afoot to move No. 171 to Dublin for trials.

The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR (I) or GNRI) was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway company in Ireland. It was formed in 1876 by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway (INW), Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway.

2015年1月11日 · The exchange locomotives were GNRI No. 113 Neptnne which went south and GS&WR 4-4-0 No. 322 (which was broadly of the same dimensions, but had larger exhaust passages, but lower boiler pressure) which worked north of Dublin. Normally the GNR(I) used much cheaper Scottish coal from Killochan at Belfast and Tredegar coal at …