103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Coach Archive BR Lined Black with Early

BR Lined Black with Early Crest

seven became departmental coaches

with two types of side handbrake arrangement catered for

Class 37/0 - 37026 "Shapfell"

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Coach Archive 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