103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons

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103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red ChevronsHaving 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

4mm back to backs and 26mm over pinpoints

the group gaining permission to retain the locomotive in EWS colours

110 darkened profile wheelsets with 14

SK and SO (declassified from first class)

with 22xxx in black

Tender Details:

with white cross - Triple Pack

Toton and Margam during this period

Coach Length: 216mm

Bufferbeam cowling with large round Oleo buffers

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

Pack F: Lambton Collieries (Earl of Durham’s Collieries) - Three ex-NER P1 style Chaldrons in pre-1896 livery

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