Spark arrestors were fitted at a later stage, along with a system for passing captured sparks back to the firebox.
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They were withdrawn after three years' service, but all survive in some form: two preserved on, respectively, The Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway and the Irish Steam Preservation Society's railway and one heavily rebuilt into the Talyllyn Railway's 0-4-2T locomotive 7, Tom Rolt.
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Most test runs were on the Dublin-Cork main line; two runs went to Cork and back, and others terminated at points between Hazelhatch and Portarlington.
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The first locomotives designed specifically to burn turf were three 0-4-0 well tank engines, built by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock, Scotland, and introduced by the nationalised turf producer Bord na Móna on its 3 ft (914 mm) gauge lines at Clonsast, near Portarlington, in 1949.
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