101 'Eagle' Maroon (as delivered) Livery_LNER Pack H: Londonderry Collieries -

Pack H: Londonderry Collieries - Three 4T ‘Black Waggons’

which retained its Western Region-style lamp irons at the No

Pack L: North Eastern Railway - Three P1 style Chaldrons

Leeds in Feb 1944

Still retaining the LT “cut cab” but having lost the trip cock brackets

101 'Eagle' Maroon (as delivered) Livery_LNER Pack H: Londonderry Collieries -Having 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