102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Livery_Hanson+Hall While the Class 31 fleet

While the Class 31 fleet was in the process of being run down

Palace Gates and Blackheath

plug and Play installation

BR Class 50 - Large Logo w/grey roof & orange cantrail stripe - 50021 'Rodney' - DCC Sound Fitted

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Livery_Hanson+Hall While the Class 31 fleetHaving 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