101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red ChevronsHaving 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

‘Wilbert’ as we have come to know him

Windshield air vents: not fitted

Steam heat was not a requirement for the engineering trains so this was removed

Three P1 style Chaldrons

Freight Brown / Bauxite

This chip is the perfect companion for the EMD Engined versions being produced

500 were constructed at Inchicore between 1956 and 1969

Used for scrap metal traffic in Scotland and North East England

Very high-quality 3-pole motor with flywheel

4mm back-to-back on 2mm axles over 26mm pinpoints

both ironically removed during refurbishment and considered too expensive to reinstate

Our model faithfully captures the worn look of this long lived wagon