101 'Eagle' Maroon, with Revised Arc - DCC Sound 37-Run3 On DCC control

On DCC control

As ‘Sprinterisation’ started to bite from the mid 1980s

This engine was built in 1930 by North British Locomotive Co

and other traffic were already on the drawing board

steps fitted to all corners

101 'Eagle' Maroon, with Revised Arc - DCC Sound 37-Run3 On DCC controlHaving undertaken a programme of station refurbishment, improved its ticketing arrangements and introduced new on track plant and shunting locomotives, in 1969 the still embryonic Northern Ireland Railways set out to improve the Dublin Belfast Enterprise service, by replacing the existing diesel railcar sets with a locomotive hauled service. Intended to reduce the time for the 180 km journey to just two hours, the NIR Class 101 (DL) locomotives were