Bangor based company Bailie’s B.B. Tours produced this poster probably in the 1930s to promote travel to Ulster. Bangor had become a fashionable resort for Victorian holidaymakers and from the laying of the railway in 1865 inexpensive travel from Belfast was made possible and working class people could also afford to holiday in the town. Visitors from Great Britain increased immensely during the Edwardian era and Bailie’s Tours offered a ‘Complete Seven Day Tour’ of Ulster. With headquarters in Bangor the package included visits to The Glens of Antrim, Ards Peninsula, Newcastle and the Mountains of Mourne as well as a Day Rail Trip to Dublin. Also included was accommodation, dancing and entertainment at the luxurious Pickie Rock Hotel which overlooked the seafront (in 1919 it became Bangor Collegiate School). This poster shows a ‘Bailie’s’ bus laden with holidaymakers crossing a stone bridge with the Mountains of Mourne in the background.
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| The NIR Class 80 diesel multiple units built by BREL dated from 1974. Three 3-car sets were leased by Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) from NIR from October 1987 to November 1990. |
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| One of 15 of the EMD GL8 model built for Irish Railways, the CIE 121 class, a Bo-Bo type single cab road switcher from December 1960. |
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