101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Gypsum spending most of it in

spending most of it in and around the NCB’s Hem Heath wagon workshops

which had led the way after being repaired and repainted into this iconic paint scheme by the SRPS at Bo’ness in late 2013

strapping and accurately profiled door 'horns'* RP25-110 profile OO gauge wheels with separate brake blocks in line with tread* Sprung metal buffers and dummy instanter couplings* Super fine plastic parts

* Original canopy and later 'aerodynamic' canopy styles where appropriate

brake lever

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Gypsum spending most of it inHaving 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