101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Mk5 TPE Sets and mixed with other steel

and mixed with other steel wagons

while others were used as runner vehicles on the incline between the two collieries

flashing red Tail Light fitted to one outer vehicle per outer pack

Die-cast metal chassis

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Mk5 TPE Sets and mixed with other steelHaving 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