IRISH Rail have played down speculation that steam train tourism could soon be on the way to Tralee following the clearance of an old rail line at Casement Station. Last week Irish Rail confirmed that ...

Award-winning Irish Independent photographer and steam train enthusiast Gerry Mooney takes our reporter on a magical, and deeply personal, Christmas journey The Santa Train on its journey from ...

FIRST and foremost, let me declare an interest. I am a founder member of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland. FIRST and foremost, let me declare an interest. I am a founder member of the ...

It was the ultimate busman's holiday for a railway man. And the good times came rolling in as Brendan McCrory travelled back in time on that steam train to Dublin. Not in the driver's seat, as in the ...

A new railway station has opened in Whitehead, County Antrim, but it is not an addition to the public transport network. The building is a replica of a 19th Century station and has been built by the ...

Around 250 people spent just over two hours on a halted steam train which stopped at a Wicklow station, following reports of gorse fires nearby. The train departed Connolly Station in Dublin city at ...

The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland hit the buffers in March 2020. Covid derailed the Society’s plans for its usual steam train trips on the mainline plus a series of events at Whitehead ...

Running on Easter Saturday, April 19 and and Easter Monday, April 21, the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland is inviting the community to experience the magic of steam in the picturesque seaside ...