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Downpatrick Diesel Gala – 23rd August 2025
124 test runs – behind the scenes – July and August 2025
A trio of GMs
124 – further tests, 21st June 2025
124 - First startup in preservation
190 at Downpatrick - first start in preservation
146 on test runs - 30th March 2024
A39SMR – flood repair work on A39
Irish Traction Group - Diesel Gala 2012
Downpatrick January Diesel Gala 2023
A39R test runs at Downpatrick - 19/11/2022
226 - first start and movements of 2021
G617 startup and shunting - 20th September 2020
146 tests - 6th September 2020
C231 and 146 at the ITG 30th Anniversary Gala
Five locos running in one morning
A39R - first start for three years!
C226 - first move since 1984
226 startup - 9th October 2016
C231 shunting at Downpatrick - 17th September 2016
C231 run to Inch Abbey - 28th August 2016
C231 testing - 28th August 2016
226's first startup - 9th July 2016
C231 - first start up since 2014
C231 - first move under own power in preservation!
C231 startup - 8th June 2014
C231 second startup - long version
C231 - removing the tarpaulins (timelapse)