on the Irish railway network. The society also owns 3 NCC carriages. Although none of the original NCC Class W's have survived into preservation, the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland at Whitehead is building a new member of the class. Coaches Nos.68, 87 and 91, are at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland site at Whitehead. 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 & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Embsay, 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) - now Ireland's largest - and a number of vans may be found at the Downpatrick & County Down Railway, Downpatrick, County Down. People Managers Belfast & Ballymena Railway / BNCR Thomas H. Higgin (1848–1857) Edward John Cotton (1857–1899) James Cowie (1899–1903) NCC James Cowie (1903–1922) James Pepper (1922–1931) Major Malcolm S. Spier MC (1931–1941) Major Frank A. Pope (1941–1943) Robert H.W. Bruce (1943–1946) James W. Hutton (1946–1949) Locomotive engineers Belfast & Ballymena Railway / BNCR Ellis Rowland (1847–1849) Alexander Yorston (1849–1868) Edward Leigh (1868–1875) Robert Findlay (1875–1876) Bowman Malcolm (1876–1903) NCC Bowman Malcolm (1903–1922) William K. Wallace (1922–1930) Hugh P. Stewart (1930–1933) Malcolm Patrick (1933–1946) John Thompson (1946–1949) References Sources and further reading (This, with volume 2, is the definitive history of the NCC) [For its essay on "The Irish Enclave"] (For descriptions of NCC railcars and railbuses) External links Irish Railwayana – Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Irish Railwayana – Midland NCC Irish Railwayana – LMS NCC Irish Railway Record Society Rail transport in Northern Ireland London, Midland and Scottish Railway Defunct railway companies of Ireland Irish gauge railways