NIR Mk.2c SO 931 NIR Light Grey/Blue Livery_GWR Brown 45 and "nitelink" services during

45 and "nitelink" services during the mid 1990s

losing its picked out window surrounds and duck egg blue body stripes

like the majority of its colleagues it did keep the outer pair of indicator discs retaining that visual connection to the steam era train identification system

speed recorder and end brake rigging

star spoke and wave spoke

NIR Mk.2c SO 931 NIR Light Grey/Blue Livery_GWR Brown 45 and "nitelink" services duringBuilt 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