103 'Merlin' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound Freightliner seven became departmental coaches

seven became departmental coaches

Although allocated to East Anglian infrastructure duties it was no stranger to freight or passenger work

L91 was not a survivor and was cut up by Chesterfield Steelbreaking and dismantling limited during 1970

Mark 2b SO - 935

still carrying its WMJEA legend despite nationalisation of the industry in 1948

103 'Merlin' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC Sound Freightliner seven became departmental coachesHaving 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