Name: 103 'Merlin' Maroon (as delivered)
Brand: martinafruit.com
SKU: 64074513739
Price: 132.47 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5049 (21 reviews)

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103 'Merlin' 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

Always a popular presence at diesel galas

The model replicates the period after 1949 and carries the extended bunker

the group gaining permission to retain the locomotive in EWS colours

6mm 3-hole disc wheels on metal axles

ex GWR 5757

37402 was released from Derby wearing non-standard numbers and with its Stephen Middlemore nameplates still in their ‘Compass’ livery position below the radiator

Surveys undertaken with assistance of Erlestoke Manor Fund

particularly branded as Enparts

later EE and RSH

The decoder switches between the operating modes fully automatically "on-the-fly"

50007 was outshopped in Great Western Railway lined green with cast numbers and double arrow in February 1984 as part of the GW150 celebrations that were planned for the following year

with on-off magnetic switch control (telescoping magnet wand supplied)

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