102 'Falcon' Maroon (as delivered)

102 'Falcon' Maroon (as delivered)Having 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

A pair of 3D Printed Drivers custom scanned and produced to fit perfectly in the accurascale 92

Now on hire to Colas Rail

While 1987 brought sad news with the first three examples switched off

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Horn position: buffer beam

now fully finished in its 1980s paint scheme complete with Highland ‘stag’ logo and its classic An Comunn Gaidhealach name (after the organisation that promotes the use of Scottish Gaelic) that it wore between October 1986 and February 1991

with some later styles featuring 'mix and match' versions

Ruston 245034 was built new for the firm of Babcox & Wilcox Ltd in Refrewshire

no bunker steps

Reworked for DRS service at Railcare's Glasgow Works with final rectification work undertaken at Barrow Hill

and 262997 was responsible for shunting at the new Power Station

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