103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_Sectorisation locomotive not included

locomotive not included

leaving the works on 23 April 1953

Outshopped in large logo livery

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The model replicates the period after 1949 and carries the extended bunker

103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_Sectorisation locomotive not includedHaving 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