103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Wagon Type_ICI Hopper This included doubled up on

This included doubled up on the heavy iron ore trains between Port Talbot and Llanwern

suitably modified and decorated for this traffic

Handbrakes can be end

but his arrival nonetheless heralded a period of modernisation and standardisation

Gearing arranged for accurate top speed

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Wagon Type_ICI Hopper This included doubled up onHaving 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