101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound Freight Type_Warwell BR Lined Black with Early

BR Lined Black with Early Crest

for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent

footplate & interior detail

it now gained new modifications

DCC decoder socket in tender

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound Freight Type_Warwell BR Lined Black with EarlyHaving 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