102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Livery_Hanson+Hall becoming a stalwart of the

becoming a stalwart of the North Wales coast and the famed ‘club’ trains from Liverpool and Manchester Victoria

Early tapered

particularly for coreless motors

Palace Gates and Blackheath

While the Class 31 fleet was in the process of being run down

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Livery_Hanson+Hall becoming a stalwart of theHaving 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