Restoration
At present, the ITG have four locomotives at their Carrick-on-Suir site, mainline locomotives C226 and B103, and shunting locomotives G616 and G601. Present work is focused on restoring C226, while B103 and G601 are stored outside under protective steel covers. G616 is currently stored inside the shed in a partially dismantled state, the results of an overhaul started in 1993 but stopped in 1996 due to a lack of volunteers to continue work on the locomotive. Work resumed on this locomotive in early 2012. The engine was started for the first time in some 26 years on 29 September 2012.
The group is also building a museum at Moyasta on the West Clare Railway to hold some of their locomotives. At present five locomotives, A3R, 124, 152, 190, and C231 have been moved to Moyasta. Only four are at this stage to be put in the new museum, as locomotive 190 is nominally at the WCR for storage only. This is in relation to the fact that the locomotive was undergoing repairs to its brake valves and cabs when it was sold to the ITG in 2010, and could be brought back to operating condition in the future if required. The other locomotives are all cosmetically in good order, but have either been in storage for long periods of time (124) or were part-way through overhauls that have since been stopped (A3R, C231). The only exception to this is ex-Inchicore works pilot 190, which was trucked directly from Inchicore to Moyasta in November 2009. This locomotive may be nominally operable, though the ITG does not state on its website.
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