102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Livery_BR/GWR Transition The fun couldn’t last and

The fun couldn’t last and it was stored unservicable by new owners EWS in November 1998 after being stopped with radiator issues a few weeks earlier

Six years later it also became the last Type 3 to carry Regional Railways livery and it was switched off in July 2000

the locomotive represents a standard pannier from this early period

CawoodsPack 1CAWD 92753 [RDLU 871027-0]CAWD 92790 [RDLU 871222-6]CAWD 92847 [RDLU 871292-5]

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons - DCC Sound Livery_BR/GWR Transition The fun couldn’t last andHaving 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