List of steam locomotives in Ireland

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This is a list of all steam locomotives currently residing within the Island of Ireland.

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Preserved locomotives

5ft3in Gauge

ImageCompanyNumber / NameClassTypeManufacturerSerial No.DateNotes
5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm)
BCDR No. 30.JPG
Belfast and County Down Railway 30 30 4-4-2T Beyer, Peacock & Company 42311901Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
Steam train, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum - panoramio.jpg
Northern Counties Committee (LMS)74 Dunluce Castle U2 4-4-0 North British Locomotive Company 230961924Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
NCC WT Class loco no 4.JPG
Northern Counties Committee (LMS)4 WT 2-6-4T Derby Works 1947 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
JT Class In Cultra.JPG
Great Northern Railway 93 Sutton JT 2-4-2T Dundalk Works 1895Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
Qs-Class 131 with tender 37.jpg
Great Northern Railway 131 Uranus Q 4-4-0 Neilson, Reid & Company 57571901 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
Steam train at Bellarena - 1970 (1) (geograph 3492541).jpg
Great Northern Railway 171 Slieve Gullion S 4-4-0 Beyer, Peacock & Company 56291913 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
GNRI 85 Merlin (2).jpg
Great Northern Railway 85 Merlin V 4-4-0 Beyer, Peacock & Company 67331932 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim (run by)
Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast (owned)
Lough Erne, Whitehead.JPG
Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Lough Erne Lough 0-6-4T Beyer, Peacock & Company 72421949 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
461, Bangor.JPG
Dublin and South Eastern Railway 15 →
GSR 461
15–16 2-6-0 Beyer, Peacock & Company 61121922 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
Engine No. 36 On View In Kent Train Station - June 2014.jpg
Great Southern & Western Railway 36 21 2-2-2 Bury, Curtis and Kennedy 1847Static display, Cork Kent railway station
No. 90, Downpatrick.JPG
Great Southern & Western Railway 90 90 0-6-0T Inchicore Works 1875 Downpatrick and County Down Railway
Whitehead Railway Museum - geograph.org.uk - 6289776.jpg
Great Southern & Western Railway 184 101 0-6-0 Inchicore Works 1880 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
GS&WR No 186 in Preservation.jpg
Great Southern & Western Railway 186 101 0-6-0 Sharp, Stewart & Company 28381879 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
Great Southern Railways Class 800 "Maeve" at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum - August 2014.jpg
Great Southern Railways 800
Maeḋḃ
800 4-6-0 Inchicore Works 1939Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
LPHC No. 1.JPG
Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners 1 0-6-0ST Robert Stephenson & Company 27381891Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
Approaching Steam Train - geograph.org.uk - 351310.jpg
Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners 3 R.H. Smyth 0-6-0ST Avonside Engine Company 20211928 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
O&K No. 1, Downpatrick.JPG
Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann 1 CSÉT Shunting Locomotives 0-4-0T Orenstein & Koppel 124751934 Downpatrick and County Down Railway
Downpatrick Nummer 3 (1).jpg
Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann 3 CSÉT Shunting Locomotives 0-4-0T Orenstein & Koppel 126621935 Downpatrick and County Down Railway
Whitehead Oct 2013.jpg
Guinness Brewery 3 0-4-0ST Hudswell Clarke 11521919 Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, Co. Antrim [1]

Narrow Gauge

ImageCompanyNumber / NameClassTypeManufacturerSerial No.DateNotes
3 ft (914 mm) gauge
County Donegal Railways No. 4 "Meenglass" Outside the Foyle Valley Railway Museum - August 2014.jpg
County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 16 Donegal
4 Meenglas
5 2-6-4T Nasmyth, Wilson & Company 8281907 Foyle Valley Railway
COUNTY DONEGAL RAILWAYS 5 DRUMBOE crosses the abandoned Swilly trackbed outside Letterkenny as she leaves for Strabane 1957.jpg
County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 17 Glenties
5 Drumboe
5 2-6-4T Nasmyth, Wilson & Company 8291907 Donegal Railway Heritage Centre
2-6-4 No. 6 Columbkille.jpg
County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 18 Killybegs
6 Columbkille
5 2-6-4T Nasmyth, Wilson & Company 8301907 Foyle Valley Railway
County Donegal Railways No. 2 "Blanche" at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum - August 2014.jpg
County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 2A Strabane
2 Blanche
5A 2-6-4T Nasmyth, Wilson & Company 9561912Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
C&LR 4-4-0T 2 "KATHLEEN".jpg
Cavan and Leitrim Railway 2 Kathleen 1–8 4-4-0T Robert Stephenson & Company 26131887Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
Cavan and Leitrim Railway 3 Lady Edith 1–8 4-4-0T Robert Stephenson & Company 26141887 New Jersey Museum of Transportation in process of returning to Ireland.
Irl-TraleeDingleRailTrain.jpg
Tralee and Dingle Light Railway 5 5 2-6-2T Hunslet Engine Company 5551892 Cavan and Leitrim Railway
WCR Slieve Callan at Moyasta.jpg
West Clare Railway 5 Slieve Callan 5–7 0-6-2T Dübs & Company 28901892 West Clare Railway
Portstewart Tramway 11–2 0-4-0T Kitson & Company T561882Preserved at the Streetlife Museum of Transport in Hull.
Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (Portstewart Tramway Company) Locomotive No 2 (A2).jpg
Portstewart Tramway 21–2 0-4-0T Kitson & Company T841883Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast.
Giant's Causeway engines.JPG
British Aluminium 1 Tyrone 0-4-0T Peckett & Sons 10261904 Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway
"Peckett & Sons, Cultra - geograph.org.uk - 2760679.jpg
British Aluminium 2 0-4-0T Peckett & Sons 10971906Static display, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
Engine No2LM44.jpg
Bord na Móna 2 → LM441–3 0-4-0WT Andrew Barclay Sons & Company 22641949 Stradbally Woodland Railway
Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway.jpg
Bord na Móna 3 Shane → LM451–3 0-4-0WT Andrew Barclay Sons & Company 22651949 Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway
1 ft 10 in (559 mm) gauge
Guinness loco at NGRM - 2008-03-18.jpg
Guinness Brewery 13 0-4-0T William Spence and Son 1895Static display, Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn, Wales
Guinness Brewery 15 0-4-0T William Spence and Son 1895 Stradbally Woodland Railway
1902 William Spence Steam Locomotive No.17 at Austin Ice Cream Van at the Guinness Storehouse.jpg
Guinness Brewery 17 0-4-0T William Spence and Son 1902 Guinness Brewery, Dublin.
Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Arthur Guinness, Son and Co Ltd, Locomotive No 20 by Samuel Geohegan 01.jpg
Guinness Brewery 20 0-4-0T William Spence and Son 1905Static display at Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
Guinness Brewery 22 0-4-0T William Spence and Son 1912 Cavan and Leitrim Railway
Guinness loco 23 Amberly Chalk pits working museum (3).jpg
Guinness Brewery 23 0-4-0T William Spence and Son 1921Static display, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, Amberley, West Sussex.

In addition to the 19 preserved Irish standard gauge locomotives, a NCC Class W new build project is currently in the works.

References

  1. "NO.3BG "GUINNESS"". Railway Preservation Society of Ireland . Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.