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Both the Ulster Folk Museum and Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about Script error: No such module "convert". east of the city of Belfast. Now operating as two separate museums, the Folk Museum endeavours to illustrate the way of life and traditions of the people in Northern Ireland, past and present, while the Transport Museum explores and exhibits methods of transport by land, sea and air, past and present. The museums rank among Ireland's foremost visitor attractions and is a former Irish Museum of the Year.[1] The location houses two of four museums included in National Museums NI.[2]

Folk Museum

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W. and G. Baird Stationers and Printers
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The waterwheel which powered the Coalisland spade mill

History

Authorised by the Ulster Folk Museum Act (Northern Ireland) 1958, the museum was created to preserve a rural way of life in danger of disappearing forever due to increasing urbanisation and industrialisation in Northern Ireland. The Script error: No such module "convert". site the museum occupies was formerly the estate of Sir Robert Kennedy and was acquired in 1961. The museum opened to the public for the first time three years later in 1964.[3]

Exhibits

The Folk Museum houses a variety of old buildings and dwellings which have been collected from various parts of Ireland and rebuilt in the grounds of the museum, brick by brick. The site is devoted to illustrating the rural way of life in the early 20th century, and visitors can stroll through a recreation of the period's countryside complete with farms, cottages, crops, livestock, and visit a typical Ulster town of the time called "Ballycultra", featuring shops, churches, and both terraced and larger housing and a Tea room. Regular activities include open hearth cooking, printing, needlework, and traditional Irish crafts demonstrations. All these new developments have aided UFM in developing a new visitor base and have gained the site international recognition.

The museum is the holder of Northern Ireland's main film, photographic, television and sound archives. The museum holds the BBC Northern Ireland archive of radio and television programmes, and also possesses over 2,000 hours of sound material broadcast between 1972 and 2002 by the Irish language radio station RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, from its studios in Derrybeg, County Donegal. The museum also maintains an archive of Ulster dialects, and a large library containing over 15,000 books and periodicals. The archives and library are open to the public during office hours.

Transport Museum

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Great Southern Railways No. 800 Maeḋḃ, 2006

History

The Transport Museum has its origins in Belfast Corporation's preserved collection of historic transport items, which were temporarily exhibited in the 1950s in a former engine shed near Queen's Quay station. This collection was subsequently expanded and moved to new premises on Witham Street, opening on 1 April 1962. In 1967, the Transport Museum was removed from Belfast Corporation ownership when it was merged with the Ulster Folk Museum. An additional Script error: No such module "convert". of land was purchased at Cultra and the first new gallery was opened in May 1976, although most of the collection remained at Witham Street for the time being. In the 1990s, new larger galleries were constructed at Cultra and the rest of the collection was then moved. These were the railway and road galleries, which opened in 1993 and 1996 respectively.[3][4][5]

Exhibits

The Transport Museum houses an extensive transport collection, and endeavours to tell the story of transport in Ireland, from its early history to the modern era. It is the largest railway collection in Ireland.[6]

The Irish Railway Collection tells the story of over 150 years of railway history. Steam locomotives, passenger carriages and goods wagons are combined with extensive railway memorabilia, interactive displays and visitor facilities. One of the collection's main attractions is Great Southern Railways Class 800 locomotive No. 800 Maeḋḃ, one of the three largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever to be built and run in Ireland.[7]

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Clay model of the DMC-12 Coupe by Italdesign, Moncalieri, Turin for the DeLorean Motor Company from 1975

The new Road Transport Galleries boast a large collection of vehicles ranging from cycles and motorcycles to trams, buses, and cars. One of its most famous attractions is a DMC DeLorean car, the model made famous by Back to the Future, and manufactured by the DeLorean Motor Company in Belfast. Recent additions to the collection include a full set of Stanley Woods racing memorabilia, and two of his bikes. Also on display is a Rex McCandless vehicle and an early Formula 1 racing car. In October 2023 a collection of 7 racing motorbikes from local racers, including Joey Dunlop, was opened in the Driven gallery of the museum, as examples of the long history of road racing in Northern Ireland.[8]

The museum boasts a permanent Titanic exhibition, documenting the construction, voyage, and eventual sinking of the ill-fated vessel. The ship has long been associated with Northern Ireland, as it was constructed in the Harland & Wolff shipyards, just a few miles from the museum. The newly refurbished Titanic exhibition, tying in with the Folk museum's 'Titanic Trail' is titled TITANICa.[9] Also on the nautical theme, there is the 120 ton steel schooner Result.

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Short SC.1, an experimental vertical take-off aeroplane

The aircraft on display is the Shorts manufactured Short SC.1, an experimental vertical take-off aeroplane, only two of which were ever produced. The example in the museum, XG905, crashed in 1963, ending up upside down and killing its pilot. It was, however, repaired and flown again before eventually being preserved by the museum.[10]

Railway and tramway vehicles

Number Type Build date Photo Original operator Gauge Notes
48 4-wheeled 3rd-class carriage 1838 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Third Class Car No 48 of DWWR (Dublin and Kingston Railway) (02).jpg DKR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Built as Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., converted to Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in 1856.
47 6-wheeled director's saloon 1844 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, saloon car.jpg MGWR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". William Dargan's private saloon.
1 Bogie tricomposite carriage 1882 CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Used as director's saloon when required.
2 4-wheeled bench wagon 1882 Guinness Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1 of 4 built for giving tours of the brewery. Converted to 3' from 1'10". Being restored in the museum stores. Not on display.
3 4-wheeled bench wagon 1882 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Arthur Guinness, Son and Co Ltd, Locomotive No 20 by Samuel Geohegan 06.jpg Guinness Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1 of 4 built for giving tours of the brewery. Converted to 3' from 1'10".
381 Horse-drawn tram 1883 File:Fintona Horse Tram, Cultra - geograph.org.uk - 2760595.jpg GNR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Fintona tram.
2 0-4-0T steam tram 1883 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (Portstewart Tramway Company) Locomotive No 2 (A2).jpg Portstewart Tramway Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Vertical boiler
2 Electric tram 1883 GCT Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
5 Electric tram 1883 GCT Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
4 6-wheeled composite carriage 1884 CVBT Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
2 4-4-0T steam locomotive 1884 File:C&LR 4-4-0T 2 "KATHLEEN".jpg CLR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Named Kathleen
2 Electric tram 1885 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Road Transport Gallery 05.jpg BNT Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
118 Horse-drawn tram 1885 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Road Transport Gallery 12.jpg Belfast Street Tramways Co Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". [11]
5 Bogie composite carriage 1887 CLR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1 0-6-0ST steam locomotive 1891 File:LPHC No. 1.JPG LPHC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns
93 2-4-2T steam locomotive 1895 File:JT Class In Cultra.JPG GNR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". GNRI Class JT named Sutton
30 4-4-2T steam locomotive 1901 File:BCDR No. 30.JPG BCDR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Last BCDR locomotive in existence
4 Electric tram 1901 File:Hill of Howth (Sutton), Cultra - geograph.org.uk - 2760659.jpg GNR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Howth tram.
249 Electric tram 1905 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Road Transport Gallery 13.jpg BCT Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". [11]
20 0-4-0T steam locomotive 1905 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Arthur Guinness, Son and Co Ltd, Locomotive No 20 by Samuel Geohegan 01.jpg Guinness Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1882 Samuel Geoghegan, the Guinness brewery's young head engineer, invented and patented a lightweight steam engine with all moving parts high above the dirty floor to fit within a 6 ft (1.8 m) loading gauge.
Model of haulage wagon File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Arthur Guinness, Son and Co Ltd, Locomotive No 20 by Samuel Geohegan 07.jpg Guinness Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Samuel Geoghegan also invented a Haulage Wagon by which his patented narrow-gauge locomotives could be used on broad gauge track.
1 Petrol railcar 1905 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, County Donega Railways Joint Committee Railcar No 1 (03).jpg CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nicknamed The Pup.
2 0-4-0T steam locomotive 1906 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Peckett Locomotive No 2 of British Aluminium Co, Larne, County Antrim (03).jpg Larne Aluminium Works Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1 6-wheeled composite carriage 1909 File:Cultra a10.jpg DNGR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Last DNGR vehicle in existence.
2 2-6-4T steam locomotive 1912 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Railway Gallery 04.jpg CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Named Blanche
246 4-wheeled petrol mechanical 1916 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, War Department Light Railways Simplex Locomotive No 246 (02).jpg War Department, later sold to Carnuff Quarry of Howden Brothers in Larne and then moved to Collin Glen brickworks in Belfast Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". This was one of 40 bespoke Simplex petrol locos ordered in 1916 by the War Department from the Rail & Tram Car Company of Bedford for use on the trenches railway. In all, the Motor Rail Company supplied 820 locos to the War Department.
74 4-4-0 steam locomotive 1924 File:Steam train, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum - panoramio.jpg NCC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". NCC Class U2 named Dunluce Castle Built by North British Locomotive Company
E Railbus 1928 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Railway Gallery 02.jpg GNR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
3 Carriage 1926 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Red and White Car (02).jpg CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Former Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". railcar from DBST, bought by CDRJC and converted to 3'.
11 Diesel locomotive 1928 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, County Donega Railways Joint Committee Locomotive No 11, Phoenix (02).jpg CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Named Phoenix. Built as a steam locomotive but converted to diesel in 1932.
357 Electric tram 1930 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Road Transport Gallery 04.jpg BCT Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". [11]
10 Diesel railcar 1932 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, County Donega Railways Joint Committee Railcar No 10.jpg CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The first articlated diesel railcar in Ireland. Ordered in 1932 by the Clogher Valley Railway as CVR railcar No 1 from Walkers of Wigan. To save money, CVR supplied the rear used carriage bogie.
800 4-6-0 steam locomotive 1939 4-6-0 GSR 800 GSR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". GSR Class 800 which was one of the most powerful steam locomotive to be built for an Irish Railway. Named Maedb.
3127 4-wheeled diesel mechanical 1943 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Admiralty Railway, Lisahally, Lough Foyle Locomotive No 3127 (02).jpg Admiralty Railway, Lisahally, Lough Foyle Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The pier railway was built in 1942 and the loco delivered in 1943. During WWII, it hauled the covered wagon between land-based stores and ships at the end of the pier.
? 4-wheeled diesel mechanical 1944 ? Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
? 4-wheeled diesel mechanical 1946 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Simplex locomotive No 9202 of Northern Sand and Brick Company, Toome, County Antrim 01.jpg Northern Sand & Brick Company. In 1955 sold to the Ministry of Agriculture to work on the construction of the Black Braes Embankment sea defences beside Loch Foyle. Later sold to County Antrim to work on the new Ballyumford power station. Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". This Simplex loco was built by the Motor Rail Company of Bedford to be exhibited at the Royal Dublin Show in 1946. It was later bought by the Northern Sand & Brick Company for its Toome brickworks railway, where it worked until 1955.
35 4-wheeled diesel mechanical 1950 File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Arthur Guiness, Son and Co Ltd, Locomotive No 35, Planet (01).jpg Guinness Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". This loco was one of 12 Planet diesels built for Guinness (beer) by F. C. Hibberd. It hauled side tippers for malt and spent grain, coal and cinders, and flat wagons for barrels up to 1975.
B113 BoBo diesel 1950 File:Cultra 1.jpg CIÉ Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". CIE 113 Class
102 BoBo diesel 1970 File:NIR 101-Class 102.jpg NIR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". NIR 101 Class
? Rail bike ? File:Cycle dolly, Cultra - geograph.org.uk - 2760686.jpg NCC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
23642 Brake van 19?? CIÉ Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
706 Goods van 19?? GSWR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
240 Cattle wagon ? SLNCR Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Being restored in the museum stores. Not on public display.
? Flatbed 19?? ? Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Being restored in the museum stores. Not on public display.
? Coal wagon ? ? Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Being restored in the museum stores. Not on public display.
136 Open wagon 19?? File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, open wagon No 136.jpg CDRJC Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
? Goods van 19?? ? Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
4-wheeled mining carts File:Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Wooden Coal Carts 01.jpg Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Railway connection for visitors

Cultra railway station on the Belfast-Bangor railway line provides connections to Sydenham, Belfast Lanyon Place and Belfast Grand Central, Portadown and Newry in one direction and to Bangor in the other direction.

See also

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Other museums

References

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