103 'Merlin' NIR Blue, with Red Arc
Available in stock
Detailed Description
Detailed Description
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 designed to run in a push/pull configuration, with a 270 ton 8-car set of BR Mk.2b stock, at a maximum speed of 80mph.
Specification
Specification
Lighting and DCC
Lighting and DCC
Common Features
Common Features
Absolutely fantastic loco, my favourite class of all, popped in a DCC non sound chip and all good, running like a dream.
As I said earlier I loved this livery , lovely and bright.
Beautifully detailed and a fantastic reproduction of an iconic locomotive.
Smooth runner and great detail. Great to see a release of the iconic NIR Enterprise loco fleet.
First class model credit to all involved in this project.
Your three Hunslets that I recently bought are absolutely fantastic locomotives and I’m extremely impressed and happy with them all.
Lovely model!!