@mr.man7560: The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland’s Colmcille Railtour brought Great Northern Railway (Ireland) S class 4-4-0 No. 171 “Slieve Gullion” and five NIR bogies to Londonderry (Waterside) and the train is seen here at Royal Air Force Station Ballykelly en route to the Maiden City on the 17th October 1970. The runway at RAF Ballykelly had to be extended across the LMS NCC mainline during the Second World War to accommodate B-24 Liberator Bombers and other heavy aircraft. This called for the signalling to be interlocked with the Air Traffic Control tower. After the war, the airfield continued to be used by Royal Air Force Coastal Command who flew Avro Shackletons far into the Atlantic, mostly on maritime reconnaissance and submarine monitoring as well as weather observation duties. The airfield commander provided an escort of RAF Police (see the gent in the white belt), a Series 2 Land Rover fire tender to add some colour, and a Avro Shackleton MR.Mk.2, its Rolls-Royce Griffon engines roaring, as a fine backdrop! No. 171 here has the 4000-gallon VS class tender which she had from the time she left Harland and Wolff’s until 1973. The set contains two North Atlantic coaches, but by now they are repainted in NIR’s “excur-sion only” livery of maroon with a broad grey stripe along the waist. One of these two, the third vehicle in the train, is No. 472, now preserved as LMS NCC No. 91. . . . _____________________________ #raf #royalairforce #aviation #railfan #traintok _____________________________

maazda miata :

Thomas the train🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 00:20

ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕝_𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕞𝕒𝕟🇮🇪☭ :

whats Londonderry?

Marty Harpo :

That’s Tomas the tank engine what he doing up that neck of the woods. Lol

Willno :

Is that Edward

Canine shadow :

Dril X :

They meant derry

Malle :

Yooo Shackelton mentioned

🧸CASPER🧸 :

Why we arguing over the name did nobody learn from the troubles 💔💔💔

Gary Glenn :

slieve gullion?

Ethanallyourfood :

WAS THAT CARRAGE GOING BY ITSELF!

caolan :

had better rail services 70 years ago ...a joke the rail investment in the northwest ..

carlyy :

Edward and the running coaches

￴ ￴ ￴￴ ￴ Corby08 :

right expected planes when I heard RAF but I didn't expect Thomas the tank engine to appear out of nowhere

bruh :

It still goes over the old runaway and goes really close to the City of derrys airport’s runway

jcspotting :

I've been across that line to Derry and it's brilliant 🤣 RAF runway sure caught me off guard

Tomy The Tank Engine :

wait, Edward?

Maximus Hibernicus :

Back when the trains had faces

Toblerone2026 :

Brize norton in Oxfordshire had one like this too

Stanley Emanuel :

Edward

🇬🇧 narrow gauge engine fred :

i thought it going to crash the plane but peak btw

Nobby :

Served there 2002 to 2004, Whilst running around the airfield I noticed the train track through the runway I though Eh😳😳😳

Tismer :

what are the first coaches rolling around?

Canine shadow :

Canine shadow :

bucklez :

Derry 🇮🇪