101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc Vehicle 37289 (built as D6989) was

37289 (built as D6989) was a regular performer on loco-hauled services around the country

Multiple body and nose slides to accurately represent almost every member of the class

'Plate' bogies with oil axle box

Boiler exhaust

while April 2015 saw it stored for its second long time out

101 'Eagle' NIR Blue, with Red Arc Vehicle 37289 (built as D6989) wasHaving 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