103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound ERA_Pre-Grouping Working tail light on one

Working tail light on one vehicle in each pack

highly detailed

In March 1993 it became the first member of the fleet to receive the new Regional Railways livery along with the name Cathays C&W Works 1846-1993

circa 1890

Highly detailed OO scale model

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound ERA_Pre-Grouping Working tail light on oneHaving 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