102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Coach Type_Siphon G operating equipment

operating equipment

It was returned to steam and has been in service on and off ever since

Representing the classic mid 1960s era of English Electric’s finest is D9018 in two-tone green with small yellow panel

Famously designed to be retrofitted with air-conditioning equipment

including (but not limited to) handrails

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Coach Type_Siphon G operating equipmentHaving 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