101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - 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

P6 Hopper - 1901-1904 Pre-Grouping: NER Grey - Triple Pack

37025 and 37418

New to 86A Cardiff Canton in January 1965 and then to Swansea Landore in 1972

Wipers Fitted : Four

Dinmore Manor Loco Ltd and Tyseley Locomotive Works

In January 1991 it was released from Glasgow St Rollox Works in Railfreight Construction colours

an incongruous sight among the more modern wagons being used

being the world’s first complete railway system that only utilised steam locomotives

British Railways Departmental Service Van

It seemed inevitable that Rannoch would return to large logo in due course and would have been a favourite for preservation

Glendower was one of the 93 locomotives completed by Hunslet in the years after the war

with additional one-piece NEM mounted option