NIR Mk.2b BGV 911 NIR Light Grey/Blue 60-Run2 NEM coupling boxes

NEM coupling boxes

this is believed to be one of the longest names ever carried by a UK locomotive

as present at Stargate Colliery in February 1950

Class 37/0 - 37051

NIR Mk.2b BGV 911 NIR Light Grey/Blue 60-Run2 NEM coupling boxesBuilt at Litchurch Lane, Derby, in 1970, eight examples were constructed for Northern Ireland Railways for its new Enterprise service between Belfast and Dublin. This landmark service featured a range of bespoke vehicles that were quite unlike anything then in operation in Irelandor indeed on British Raildespite being a derivative of a BR design. The eight Mk. 2b coaches acquired by the newly formed Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) included several new