103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Wheelsets allowing operation over a minimum

allowing operation over a minimum radius of 371mm (1st radius set-track)

differed from the initial C72 order by being designated for shunting duties and differed in build accordingly

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Works number 3810 was completed in 1954 and sold directly to the NCB

During June 2021

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Wheelsets allowing operation over a minimumHaving 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