101 'Eagle' Maroon (as delivered) - DCC SoundHaving 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

One time only

PowerPack stay-alive system and dual speaker configuration to reproduce the characteristic sound and function of an Deltic  at work

it ran in this condition until it was repainted two-tone green in August 2003

Smaller 'iphone' style cube for higher frequencies

Designed as a heavy freight locomotive rather than a mixed traffic type

BSSP 4025

Easily accessible interior for customer detailing

strapping and accurately profiled door 'horns'* RP25-110 profile OO gauge wheels with separate brake blocks in line with tread* Sprung metal buffers and dummy instanter couplings* Super fine plastic parts

in three body styles

Flush Tender Body

An Accurathrash DCC Sound speaker- 8ohm

with different block types and the more complicated Londonderry clasp type brake