101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound Freight Type_Warwell DCC decoder socket in tender

DCC decoder socket in tender

BR Lined Black with Early Crest

for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent

PowerPack stay-alive system and dual speaker configuration to reproduce the characteristic sound and function of a BR Class 55 at work

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound Freight Type_Warwell DCC decoder socket in tenderHaving 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