VIDEO: Steam train driver training

This Iarnród Éireann crew were at Mullingar Train Station today completing training as steam train engineers (from left) Willie Ferns, driver, Connolly Station; Robert Jolley, driver; Keith Farrelly, driver; Gerry Mooney, Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, and Lar Griffin, traction inspector.

They left a short while ago for Killucan.

Details on locomotive 461 at Steam Trains Ireland.

 

Click on the videos below to see the train preparing to leave & moving on from the platform

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