103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red ChevronsHaving 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

A class D audio power amplifier with up to 3W output power feeds the speakers with a permitted impedance of 4 – 32 Ohms

PowerPack capacitor bank for uninterrupted power and sound

Roller Bearing Axle-boxes

1990-2000's

FCA 610308 debranded + West Waste (A-251)

Free running track pickup

CIÉ embarked on a programme of rolling stock renewal beginning in the early 1950s

HYA  37 70 6791 086-1

the same year that production at Renfrew was scaled back due to the recession

Cutdown HYA -  Blue/Black with Touax/GB Railfreight branding  (Pack 1)

although it was recorded at Doncaster by 1993

It was fitted with a Giesl ejector and underfeed stoker sometime in 1966 before transferring to Bickerhsaw Colliery in Leigh and allocated the rather catchy number 63/000/432