NIR Tamper 5
Tamper No. 5 was acquired from Translink/NI Railways in 2022 at the same time as the VMT and some Irish Rail ballast hoppers and plough van. This machine was last used by NIR on the Derry/Londonderry relay project, and was stored at Ballymena for a number of years, before being offered to DCDR in 2022. […]
CIÉ H Van 18864
18864 is one of hundreds of covered goods wagons constructed by CIÉ throughout the 1950s and 60s to replace their ageing and non-standard fleet of GSWR, MGWR and DSER wagons. Built to uniform design with four wheels and three-link instanter couplings, 18864 and its classmates became known as ‘H Vans’, a name which continues to […]
Ulster Railway 33
No. 33 was built in 1862 by Wright & Sons in England as a four-wheeled first class carriage for the Ulster Railway. The Ulster Railway was the first railway company in what would later become Northern Ireland, opening their line from Belfast Great Victoria Street to Lisburn in 1839 and extending in stages to Cavan, […]
CIÉ Tin Van 638a
638a was built in Inchicore Works in 1956 to a design by O. V. S. Bullied as travelling post office (TPO) No. 2971. 2971 and its fellow four-wheeled TPOs became known as ‘Tin Vans’ due to the use of aluminium panelling in their construction. At 30ft long across two rigid axles, these vans were quite […]
GSWR 69
Carriage 69 was built by the Great Southern & Western Railway at their Inchicore Works in 1888. It was originally a full brake, meaning it had no passenger accommodation. It instead housed a Guard’s compartment and large luggage space, and to this end had both a birdcage and duckets; these were protrusions from the roof […]
Wickham Railcar 713
713 is one of five inspection trolleys built in 1962 for CIÉ by Wickham of Ware. Designed to the Type 40 MkIIZ specification, it was perhaps originally equipped with a Ford Zephyr engine, but this was at some point replaced with a more powerful Bedford 6-cylinder. It was used by CIÉ track gangs for inspections […]
NIR 90 and 752
Together, power car 90 and driving trailer 752 make up one of the two 80 Class sets at DCDR. They were both built by BREL at their Litchurch Lane works in Derby, with 90 being built in 1978 and 752 in 1969 as a normal British Rail Mark II carriage. It would later be converted […]
NIR 69 and 749
Together, power car 69 and driving trailer 749 make up one of the two 80 Class sets at DCDR. They were both built in 1978 by BREL at their Litchurch Lane works in Derby. They were part of the second batch of 80 Class railcars built for NIR, coasting off the success of the first […]
CIÉ C231
C231 is one of the five Irish Traction Group-owned locomotives at DCDR. It was built in 1956 by Metropolitan Vickers at their works in Dukinfield, near Manchester for CIÉ. C231 was part of an order of 34 ‘C Class’ locomotives, built alongside 60 ‘A Class’ locomotives which were larger versions of the same design. The […]
GSWR No. 90
90’s story began in Dublin when it was designed by the Great Southern and Western Railway’s locomotive engineer, Alexander McDonnell, for the Castleisland & Gortatlea Railway in Co. Kerry. At a cost of £1585 (including eight spare boiler tubes!), it was constructed at the GSWR’s Inchicore Works in 1875 and entered service in Kerry that […]