Special steam train leaving Portadown - 1987
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Special steam train leaving Portadown - 1987
Image: © The Carlisle Kid Taken: 22 Aug 1987
To commemorate 40 years of the cross-border "Enterprise" passenger service, Northern Ireland Railways and the Railways Preservation Society of Ireland operated a special steam hauled excursion from Belfast (Central) to Dublin (Connolly) and return. Seen leaving Portadown, the train is hauled by preserved ex-Great Northern Railway (Ireland) class V compound No. 85. "Merlin".
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Image Location
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54.422615
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-6.449048