103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Irish Wagons 500 wagons built to this

500 wagons built to this pattern

multiple working socket on the nose

Works number 3810 was completed in 1954 and sold directly to the NCB

and may not be fully indicative of the final model

2b SO (ex-FK) 4109 Orange Roof

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Irish Wagons 500 wagons built to thisHaving 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