102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red ArcHaving 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

Iarnród Éireann Logo and branding

at Stratford in 1904 and incorporated many of the improvements made to the R24 Class in the 1902 Improvement Programme

9021 – ‘Argyll and Sutherland Highlander’

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as fitted to new wagons between 1904 until circa 1916 and retained when anti-friction gear removed

Crumlin in 1973

Class 37/4 - 37423 "Spirit of the lakes"

Etched metal door kickplates (where applicable)

In contrast to the more common plain black livery

High-fidelity dummy screw couplings

Over the next seven years

Oliver Bulleid