101 'Eagle' Maroon, with Revised Arc - DCC Sound Locomotive Class_GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 the NIR Class 101 (DL)

the NIR Class 101 (DL) locomotives were designed to run in a push/pull configuration

• Blackened metal 10

steps were put at opposite end

This locomotive was specially finished in British Railways lined green it was to be named “Evening Star”

making them a favourite pre-nationalisation favourite of the corporate blue era

101 'Eagle' Maroon, with Revised Arc - DCC Sound Locomotive Class_GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 the NIR Class 101 (DL)Having 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