102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Arc Project Status_In Production with white cross - Triple

with white cross - Triple Pack

Standard sleeper coach 15315

This particular one was completed in November 1944 and carried the WD number 71498

11 70 9229 002-4 (w/tail light)

removable ‘greedy boards’ (horizontal board extensions to the body) to the Shildon Works built Chaldron

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Arc Project Status_In Production with white cross - TripleHaving 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