101 'Eagle' Maroon (as delivered) Livery_Network Rail Yellow County Durham on 5 January

County Durham on 5 January 1959

nuclear flask

directional lighting with DC or DCC control

skew-wound motor

101 'Eagle' Maroon (as delivered) Livery_Network Rail Yellow County Durham on 5 JanuaryHaving 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