The Barrow Bridge railtour
got underway with a positioning move. Early in the morning Bill White lit
the fire in No.4 and raised steam.
Photos by C P Friel and
J J Friel.
No.4 and her 5 Mk.2 coaches whizzing along the shores of Belfast Lough,
at Eden, just east of Downshire Park. |
No.4 coasts into Belfast over the Dargan Bridge, with the reflection of
the train visible in the Royal Mail's Tomb Street building. The pleasure
craft Joyce Too rides at anchor in midstream. |
At Central Station, Mark, the RPSI loco rep, tops up the oil resevoir on
No.4's left-hand crosshead. |
Before long, No.4 steamed merrilly out of the station on her way south. |
Our photographer in the chase car set himself up just south of Cloghogue
Chapel for this shot, but his composition was foiled by the loco being
shut off and, instead of a sharp exhaust, he got rolling clouds of black
smoke instead. |
Further south he had better luck at the summit of Kellystown bank, just
north of Drogheda. Later in the day the train was stabled in the shed at
Connolly station, ready for the railtour proper to commence. |
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