101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc BR Blue Mark 2 Early 1990s period

Early 1990s period

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By the end of that year

NEM coupler pockets fitted on 'kinematic' mounts with narrow tension lock couplers provided

along with a “locally made” squared Giesl ejector

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc BR Blue Mark 2 Early 1990s periodHaving 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