New Great Victoria Street station - first steam train
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New Great Victoria Street station - first steam train
Image: © The Carlisle Kid Taken: 1 Oct 1995
It was fitting the first steam train out of the new Great Victoria Street station should be hauled by a former GNR(I) locomotive - in this case Class-V compound 4.4.0 No. 85 "Merlin". Seen departing with the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland "The Phoenix" railtour to Dundalk, the train is passing the new Central Junction, which gives direct access to Central Station. This view is now lost due to unrestricted vegetation growth.
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