BUILT BY : INCHICORE WORKS YEAR BUILT : 1875 WITHDRAWN :  LAST MAJOR OVERHAUL COMPLETED : 2007

No.90, in the condition she arrived in,at Whitehead in 2006.  Photo by J Spencer.

That was by no means the end of the story and in the late 1980s, No.90 was loaned to Westrail and moved to Tuam. Not only did Westrail volunteers energetically restore the loco to working order, but made the additions necessary for operating passenger trains in the 1990s - for example, vacuum brakes and electric lights. The boiler was rebuilt by the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgnorth. For several years the loco operated in a most competent manner not only in the Galway area but briefly at Cork. Unfortunately, this did not continue (lack of local steam crews and the end of Tuam as a block post were two reasons). The engine was still owned by Iarnrod Eireann and was removed to their Inchicore works for safekeepking.

The loco was now been loaned to the Downpatrick and Co Down Railway, who secured funding for basic boiler and other repairs necessary to make the loco operational for their line. They asked RPSI Engineering at Whitehead to carry out this work, and the loco was delivered straight to Whitehead from Inchicore. During her stay at Whitehead, No.90's boiler was completely retubed and all glands were repacked. The whistle, which had been removed by unscrupulous persons before her arrival at Whitehead, was replaced with a new one, modelled on the original GS&WR whistle on No.186.