102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Livery_Hanson+Hall plaques and arrows (if applicable)

plaques and arrows (if applicable)

Windshield air vents: present

which it carried to withdrawal in October 1961

becoming a stalwart of the North Wales coast and the famed ‘club’ trains from Liverpool and Manchester Victoria

In an unveiling ceremony at York on the 10th May 2016

102 'Falcon' NIR Blue, with Red Chevrons Livery_Hanson+Hall plaques and arrows (if applicable)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