Preserved Vehicles
A number of NCC vehicles have been preserved.
- Class U2 4-4-0 No.74 Dunluce Castle is on display at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down.
- Class WT 2-6-4T steam locomotive No.4 is owned by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland at Whitehead which operates it on special excursion trains on the Irish railway network. The society also owns a number of NCC carriages.
- Railcar No.1 is stored in a dilapidated condition at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland site at Whitehead.
- Coaches Nos.238 and 241, former Midland Railway vehicles which had been transferred to the NCC from the LMS as replacements for stock destroyed in the air raid of 4 May 1941, were repatriated in 2004 and 2005 respectively and are at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Embsay, near Skipton, Yorkshire.
- Portstewart Tramway Kitson 0-4-0 tram locomotive No.1 was an early candidate for preservation, crossing the Irish Sea in 1939, and is in the collection of the Streetlife Museum of Transport, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire.
- Portstewart Tramway Kitson 0-4-0 tram locomotive No.2 is on display at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down.
- An ex-NCC Lister internal combustion engined platform truck may also be seen at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
- LMS (NCC) 36 ton steam breakdown crane (Cowans Sheldon and Co., 1931) and a number of vans may be found at the Downpatrick & County Down Railway, Downpatrick, County Down.
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