102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Arc Project Status_In Production Standard sleeper coach 15315

Standard sleeper coach 15315

This particular one was completed in November 1944 and carried the WD number 71498

Another smaller feature on this locomotive was the relocation of the injectors to above the running plate ahead of the cab

2c Ph2 SO (ex-FO) 4103 Orange Roof

removable ‘greedy boards’ (horizontal board extensions to the body) to the Shildon Works built Chaldron

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Arc Project Status_In Production Standard sleeper coach 15315Having 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