101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_GWR On the 13th of September

On the 13th of September 1987

an embellishment never given to 37409

Fully functional Headlights per prototype

31285 debuted new larger LED tail lights and

this locomotive was originally numbered 66250 and was the last EWS class 66 as part of their “red revolution” which had started with 66001 just a few years earlier

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc ERA_GWR On the 13th of SeptemberHaving 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