NORTHERN IRELAND RAILWAYS (NIR)

■ TRAFFIC AND TRACTION: GM No. 8113 was active on a regular ballast duty during late July.

The locomotive was noted on the 23-25th working a train of six hoppers each day between the loading siding at Poyntzpass to the parcels bay siding at Belfast Lanyon Place. After recessing there it hauled the wagons each evening after the end of service to various locations on the Londonderry line, where ballast was discharged. No. 8113 then returned