103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Irish Wagons Bogies Fitted : Cast

Bogies Fitted : Cast

The locomotive was unveiled in its special black livery in connection with Prostate Cancer UK during August before becoming the flagship for the September tour

multiple working socket on the nose

with white cross - Triple Pack

2b SO (ex-FK) 4109 Orange Roof

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Irish Wagons Bogies Fitted : CastHaving 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