101 'Eagle' Maroon, with Revised Arc Livery_Irish Rail Engine bay lighting

Engine bay lighting

although it has stubbornly retained its unique arrangement of single lamp irons on different sides of the locomotive at each end

Happily No

each with a sprue of 20 friction elements and friction element spacers

Designed as a heavy freight locomotive rather than a mixed traffic type

101 'Eagle' Maroon, with Revised Arc Livery_Irish Rail Engine bay lightingHaving 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