102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound MDO / MDV / MDW 21 Ton Mineral Wagons Mark 2b FO - 901

Mark 2b FO - 901

this loco spent its entire working life in South Wales before being withdrawn from Newport Pill shed in 1959

1st radius set-track)

22734 B MSO

circa 1910

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Arc - DCC Sound MDO / MDV / MDW 21 Ton Mineral Wagons Mark 2b FO - 901Having 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