102 'Falcon' 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

Features: No top feed

4mm back-to-backs and 26mm over pinpoints

Differing brake arrangements tooled: Morton single shoe per wheel pattern brakes and Morton Cam pattern (diagonally opposed)

The second batch of Hill’s ‘improved’ 0-6-0T locomotives

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

pipework and screw couplings (for display)

circa 1960s

Cutdown HYA ex-Biomass -  Blue/Black with VTG branding  (Pack 2)

4mm back-to-back measurements

3 was transferred to Rowntree’s Fawdon factory in Newcastle

ECC Livery

Four roof styles: Original double riveted