101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_GWR These wagons would see use

These wagons would see use right through the decade until the site was mothballed in 1999

On the 13th of September 1987

an embellishment never given to 37409

still carrying its WMJEA legend despite nationalisation of the industry in 1948

this locomotive was originally numbered 66250 and was the last EWS class 66 as part of their “red revolution” which had started with 66001 just a few years earlier

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_GWR These wagons would see useHaving 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